Characters & Themes
How to Sleep (1935) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1935 · 11 mins · English
- Directed by
- Nick Grindé
- Starring
- Robert Benchley
A humorous documentary follows a lecturer who vows an “informative” guide to sleeping. As a sequel to the parody “How to Stay Awake,” it playfully probes why we sleep, insomnia’s causes, and research, featuring a time‑lapse of a man shifting 55 times in eight hours. It offers tips, like drinking water without fully waking, for insomniacs.
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