Robert Benchley Movies

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table...

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.