Robert Benchley Shorts (MOD) Metropolitan

Robert Benchley Shorts (MOD) MetropolitanFrom the pages of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker to a seat among the wits at the Algonquin Round Table to movie screens nationwide, Robert Benchley cut quite the funny figure. And never more so than in the short subject series the humorist made at MGM from 1935 to 1944, gathered here in a complete and completely uproarious 3 Disc Collection of 30 Theatrical Shorts. The writer adopted a common man persona to investigate and comment on the challenges of

See it before midnight chimes

on the look-out for any and all android actions

and you've got fun every and any which way

Robert Urich stars as Robert B

The American wording starts with

recreating his instantly iconic look from the movie

And as hilarious deadpan Al Lewis

Which is why two proud Texas families

cutting-edge take on the hero who started it all

Went the Strings of My Heart

Hanna-Barbera and Santa Claus

They took over a city square -- and in 18 days