Movies: Ernest Bourbon

While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play......

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

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

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....

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

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 ...

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, who has the voice of a barrel salesman, sings ...

An early Gaumont short...

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....

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...

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...

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

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

Users of the postal service aren't very happy that Onésime spends his work time writing love letters to a lovely lady. Understandably, the woman's husband doesn't take it very well either. To escape his wrath, Onésime can think of nothing better than...

French parody western....

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

Ernest Bourbon gets a bust delivered. Eduoard Grissolet visits him and rhapsodizes over it. Then Bourbon is taken to the loony bin, where they perform some extreme slapstick on him. He escapes, heads home, crawls into bed. The police break in. They t...