Robert Benchley Filmes

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...

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...

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

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

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...

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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...

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...

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

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

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

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

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.

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...

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...

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

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

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

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...