Robert Benchley Movies

  • 1938
    How to Watch Football

    How to Watch Football

    How to Watch Football

    5.71938HD

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

    How to Watch Football
  • 1940
    The Trouble with Husbands

    The Trouble with Husbands

    The Trouble with Husbands

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    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...

    The Trouble with Husbands
  • 1933
    Blind Adventure

    Blind Adventure

    Blind Adventure

    6.21933HD

    Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...

    Blind Adventure
  • 1937
    The Romance of Digestion

    The Romance of Digestion

    The Romance of Digestion

    71937HD

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

    The Romance of Digestion
  • 1938
    Music Made Simple

    Music Made Simple

    Music Made Simple

    6.51938HD

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

    Music Made Simple
  • 1942
    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    6.81942HD

    In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

    Syncopation
  • 1932
    The Sport Parade

    The Sport Parade

    The Sport Parade

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

    The Sport Parade
  • 1928
    The Spellbinder

    The Spellbinder

    The Spellbinder

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    The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

    The Spellbinder
  • 1933
    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    6.81933HD

    A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

    Rafter Romance
  • 1944
    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

    71944HD

    In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

    Practically Yours
  • 1943
    No News Is Good News

    No News Is Good News

    No News Is Good News

    6.71943HD

    Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

    No News Is Good News
  • 1941
    Waiting for Baby

    Waiting for Baby

    Waiting for Baby

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    Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

    Waiting for Baby
  • 1936
    How to Behave

    How to Behave

    How to Behave

    7.81936HD

    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...

    How to Behave
  • 1924
    Second Youth

    Second Youth

    Second Youth

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    1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

    Second Youth
  • 1932
    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils

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    Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

    Sky Devils
  • 1938
    How to Raise a Baby

    How to Raise a Baby

    How to Raise a Baby

    7.31938HD

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

    How to Raise a Baby
  • 1938
    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

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

    How to Figure Income Tax
  • 1926
    The American Venus

    The American Venus

    The American Venus

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    A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

    The American Venus
  • 1946
    Janie Gets Married

    Janie Gets Married

    Janie Gets Married

    7.31946HD

    Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

    Janie Gets Married
  • 1945
    Pan-Americana

    Pan-Americana

    Pan-Americana

    4.11945HD

    A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

    Pan-Americana