An Hour for Lunch
- IMDb link: 0165819
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (173 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Short
- Director: Roy Rowland, John Butler
- Cast: Robert Benchley, Don Castle, Jules Cowles and others
- Release date: 18 Mar 1939
- Release year: 1939
- Runtime: 9 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: lunch hour, frustration, satire comedy, robert benchley comedy series, voice over narration, joe doakes character, drugstore, indigestion, department store, barber
Plot:
Robert Benchley demonstrates how to use a lunch hour when one has several things to do besides eat lunch. He goes to the barbershop to get a haircut but his favorite barber is busy. He drops by a department store to exchange a shirt that was the wrong size, but when he gets there he finds he left the shirt in his office. Then comes an attempt to grad a quick lunch at a drugstore counter but a man waiting behind him for his seat makes him so nervous that he leaves half his food untouched. And once back in his office he finds he has indigestion.