Movies: Ernest Bourbon

A French comedy short with Zigoto....

Calino wants to live the cowboy life and travels to America to see the West....

Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house. Detective Onésime is called in to help, and is soon tangling with some criminals after the treasure too....

Seated comfortably in the green pastures near his home, Batty Bill is suddenly presented with a baby, but with his usual dull wits he is slow to realize the catastrophe that has befallen him. When he does so, the giver of this great gift has disappea...

Ernest Bourbon is introduced to a young lady, object matrimony. Unfortunately for him, he slips the ring on the other girl....

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen....

Onésime short...

Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility....

Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil....

When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each other, which involves a thrilling episode on a train....

Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office....

A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. But the cowboys fight back and mortally wound the great chief....

Ernest Bourbon, with his idiotic smile perpetually plastered on his face, invites the miners into his apartment, which they accidentally destroy. Miners, as we know, always carry their shovels and pickaxes with them, and never wash....

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals....

Ernest Bourbon -- that's Onesime -- has decided to learn to box, for some reason, and also fight an American fighter who's touring France....

The fact that the Four Arts Club were organizing an international competition of modern dances was welcome news to Simple Simon. When he ascertained that the dances would include the Cake Walk, Serpentine Crawl. Piccadilly Flop, Tango, the Wriggly Wr...

An early Gaumont short...