Robert Benchley Movies

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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

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...

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

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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...

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

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

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

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

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...

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

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