The Day of Rest

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A family man tries to spend a quiet Sunday at home, but his wife and children have other ideas.A family man tries to spend a quiet Sunday at home, but his wife and children have other ideas.A family man tries to spend a quiet Sunday at home, but his wife and children have other ideas.

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- Basil Wrangell
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6.1/10

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Director
- Basil Wrangell
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Robert Benchley

Joe Doakes

Sonny Bupp

Younger Son
(uncredited)

John Butler

Neighbor
(uncredited)

Hobart Cavanaugh

Brother-in-law
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Shirley Coates

Daughter
(uncredited)

Helen MacKellar

Mrs. Doakes
(uncredited)

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People act as if this they'd never experienced a Sunday before - the daughter sings that her dad got fired because he isn't at work; the maid is vacuuming, when in all likelihood, she, herself, wouldn't be working; and on a pre-WWII Sunday in middle-class America, there is not one mention of church.

Quotes
[first lines]
Joe Doakes: Oh - hello! Well... This being the day of rest, I can think of no better way of celebrating it than by resting. One of the troubles with this country is that nobody rests on Sunday.

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8/10

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Robert Benchley tries to enjoy his day of rest. However, his wife, Helen McKellar, can't bear to see him lying in a hammock.

It's one of the many shorts that Benchley did for MGM and later Paramount, an offshoot of an act he first did in college in which he lectured confusedly on a topic, any topic, in a manner in which he made clear that he didn't know what he was talking about. He won an Oscar for one of them, HOW TO SLEEP, in between his writing -- for THE NEW YORKER -- and appearances in features in which he maintained the same befuddled character. These shorts were invariably amusing, and this is no exception.