Robert Benchley Movies

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

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

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

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...

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

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 lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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...