Watch the Birdie is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Jack Donohue and starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl and Ann Miller.

She arranges for him to take pictures and film of her business interest, a new housing subdivision called Lucky Vista.

Rusty realizes that he has the incriminating film evidence and rushes to rescue Lucia from the crooks and to redeem himself.

Red Skelton plays the roles of three generations: the central character, his father and his grandfather.

Parts of the film were inspired by the 1928 comedy The Cameraman by Buster Keaton, who was at that point in his career working as a gagman at MGM and advising Skelton.