Robert Benchley Movies

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

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

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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