
How to Be a Detective
This Robert Benchley ‘How To’ comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

The Model and the Marriage Broker
A marriage broker can’t resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

The Male Animal
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because…

The Great Garrick
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym (‘Ernest’) on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which…

The Paleface
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white…

The Nitwits
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

Safety Last!
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Public Phone
After a nocturnal earthquake in Oaxaca, phone systems across Mexico collapse, forcing people to turn to public phones to communicate. Personal tensions and crises emerge amid the disconnection, revealing deep…

Calladita
Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young…

