Movies: Robert Benchley

  • 1944
    Why Daddy?

    Why Daddy? (1944)

    Why Daddy?

    5.21944HD

    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 new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than s...

    Why Daddy?
  • 1946
    Janie Gets Married

    Janie Gets Married (1946)

    Janie Gets Married

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    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
  • 1943
    The Sky's the Limit

    The Sky's the Limit (1943)

    The Sky's the Limit

    6.21943HD

    Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter....

    The Sky's the Limit
  • 1943
    Flesh and Fantasy

    Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

    Flesh and Fantasy

    6.81943HD

    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 murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams....

    Flesh and Fantasy
  • 1932
    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils (1932)

    Sky Devils

    5.51932HD

    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 Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump....

    Sky Devils
  • 1933
    Headline Shooter

    Headline Shooter (1933)

    Headline Shooter

    6.21933HD

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

    Headline Shooter
  • 1936
    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim (1936)

    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 Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all...

    Piccadilly Jim
  • 1941
    Crime Control

    Crime Control (1941)

    Crime Control

    4.81941HD

    A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at ...

    Crime Control
  • 1943
    My Tomato

    My Tomato (1943)

    My Tomato

    71943HD

    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 incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but sh...

    My Tomato
  • 1935
    China Seas

    China Seas (1935)

    China Seas

    6.31935HD

    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 risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!...

    China Seas
  • 1939
    Home Early

    Home Early (1939)

    Home Early

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

    Home Early
  • 1945
    Pan-Americana

    Pan-Americana (1945)

    Pan-Americana

    3.61945HD

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

    Pan-Americana
  • 1940
    The Trouble with Husbands

    The Trouble with Husbands (1940)

    The Trouble with Husbands

    6.21940HD

    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 and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - excep...

    The Trouble with Husbands
  • 1942
    The Major and the Minor

    The Major and the Minor (1942)

    The Major and the Minor

    7.01942HD

    Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby,...

    The Major and the Minor
  • 1945
    Duffy's Tavern

    Duffy's Tavern (1945)

    Duffy's Tavern

    6.11945HD

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

    Duffy's Tavern
  • 1942
    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling (1942)

    Take a Letter, Darling

    6.51942HD

    A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love....

    Take a Letter, Darling
  • 1945
    The Stork Club

    The Stork Club (1945)

    The Stork Club

    51945HD

    After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back to her job checking hats at New York City's famed Stork Club. But Bates is actually a grateful millionaire...

    The Stork Club
  • 1936
    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936)

    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

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    Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacati...

    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
  • 1942
    Syncopation

    Syncopation (1942)

    Syncopation

    6.21942HD

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

    Syncopation
  • 1939
    Dark Magic

    Dark Magic (1939)

    Dark Magic

    61939HD

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

    Dark Magic