Movies: Ernest Bourbon

Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking....

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....

Batty Bill has some bachelor apartments. He also has a friend, who has fallen in love. These lovers adjourn to Batty Bill's apartments, where unfortunately for Batty Bill, they are traced by the wrathful father, who spites his wrath on the furniture ...

Ernest Bourbon discovers that a shower of gold coins fall from his donkey's hindquarters -- I've phrased that as politely as I can. Now rich, he moves to the city, dresses well and hires servants. Unlike the one about the goose that lays the golden e...

While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering waltz on a mandolin, and he starts dancing with his lady. Everyone, from the kitchen hands to the chef, dance until their out of breath....

French parody western....

An early Gaumont short...

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...

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....

Onésime short...

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Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle....

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

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

When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons....

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle....

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....

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

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it....

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