Robert Benchley Movies

  • 1935
    How to Break 90 at Croquet

    How to Break 90 at Croquet

    How to Break 90 at Croquet

    01935HD

    Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

    How to Break 90 at Croquet
  • 1929
    Furnace Trouble

    Furnace Trouble

    Furnace Trouble

    01929HD

    Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

    Furnace Trouble
  • 1929
    Lesson No. 1

    Lesson No. 1

    Lesson No. 1

    01929HD

    Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

    Lesson No. 1
  • 1928
    The Spellbinder

    The Spellbinder

    The Spellbinder

    01928HD

    The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

    The Spellbinder
  • 1937
    Sunday Night at the Trocadero

    Sunday Night at the Trocadero

    Sunday Night at the Trocadero

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    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 i...

    Sunday Night at the Trocadero
  • 1933
    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    6.51933HD

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

    Rafter Romance
  • 1945
    The Stork Club

    The Stork Club

    The Stork Club

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    Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fit...

    The Stork Club
  • 1943
    Flesh and Fantasy

    Flesh and Fantasy

    Flesh and Fantasy

    6.71943HD

    Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts...

    Flesh and Fantasy
  • 1928
    The Sex Life of the Polyp

    The Sex Life of the Polyp

    The Sex Life of the Polyp

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    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 t...

    The Sex Life of the Polyp
  • 1936
    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    6.51936HD

    Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with L...

    Piccadilly Jim
  • 1933
    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter

    5.81933HD

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

    Headline Shooter
  • 1936
    How to Be a Detective

    How to Be a Detective

    How to Be a Detective

    6.61936HD

    This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

    How to Be a Detective
  • 1944
    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

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    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 remembe...

    Practically Yours
  • 1937
    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    5.81937HD

    A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...

    Live, Love and Learn
  • 1935
    How to Sleep

    How to Sleep

    How to Sleep

    6.41935HD

    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 audie...

    How to Sleep
  • 1937
    A Night at the Movies

    A Night at the Movies

    A Night at the Movies

    5.1821937HD

    A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more...

    A Night at the Movies
  • 1946
    The Bride Wore Boots

    The Bride Wore Boots

    The Bride Wore Boots

    5.91946HD

    A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

    The Bride Wore Boots
  • 1928
    The Treasurer's Report

    The Treasurer's Report

    The Treasurer's Report

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    Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

    The Treasurer's Report
  • 1944
    Janie

    Janie

    Janie

    5.51944HD

    Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

    Janie
  • 1946
    Janie Gets Married

    Janie Gets Married

    Janie Gets Married

    61946HD

    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