Robert Benchley Movies

  • 1939
    An Hour for Lunch

    An Hour for Lunch

    An Hour for Lunch

    6.21939HD

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

    An Hour for Lunch
  • 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
  • 1945
    Duffy's Tavern

    Duffy's Tavern

    Duffy's Tavern

    6.41945HD

    The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

    Duffy's Tavern
  • 1944
    Song of Russia

    Song of Russia

    Song of Russia

    6.21944HD

    American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

    Song of Russia
  • 1945
    I'm a Civilian Here Myself

    I'm a Civilian Here Myself

    I'm a Civilian Here Myself

    101945HD

    A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

    I'm a Civilian Here Myself
  • 1936
    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    6.81936HD

    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...

    Piccadilly Jim
  • 1940
    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    6.81940HD

    Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

    Hired Wife
  • 1936
    How to Vote

    How to Vote

    How to Vote

    6.81936HD

    A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

    How to Vote
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1941
    Bedtime Story

    Bedtime Story

    Bedtime Story

    5.81941HD

    A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

    Bedtime Story
  • 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
  • 1944
    Her Primitive Man

    Her Primitive Man

    Her Primitive Man

    7.51944HD

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

    Her Primitive Man
  • 1933
    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter

    6.31933HD

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

    Headline Shooter
  • 1940
    Home Movies

    Home Movies

    Home Movies

    71940HD

    A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

    Home Movies
  • 1932
    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils

    51932HD

    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
  • 1932
    The Sport Parade

    The Sport Parade

    The Sport Parade

    5.41932HD

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

    The Sport Parade
  • 1945
    Snafu

    Snafu

    Snafu

    71945HD

    A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

    Snafu
  • 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
  • 1938
    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

    71938HD

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

    How to Figure Income Tax