Movies: Georges Monca

Hidden behind a parasol, Rigadin was courting his eventual mistress when suddenly he saw his wife and his step-mother walking to him with a smile......

A scientist's reckless experiment turns a man into a half-ape creature, whose monkey-like antics bring confusion and alarm to his surroundings. After a series of comic disruptions, the effects of the transformation are reversed, underscoring the foll...

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The maid and the driver of Sidonie de Valpurgis have the absurd idea of ​​subletting the hotel of their boss during her absence, and precisely to Sidonie's ex-friend, who wants to spend his wedding night there....

Rigadin and his rival use camera/projector systems to reach their objectives....

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Charles Prince is a gypsy street violinist, whose appreciative audience disappears as soon as he stops playing and passes the hat. He returns home to Gabrielle Lange with empty pockets to a dinner of stale bread and fetid tap water. But an engagement...

Having fallen in love with a beautiful neighbor girl, Rigadin (Charles Prince) tries to help her get rid of a persistent suitor....

A bored pasha in an undisclosed country (possibly Morocco?) has his ennui broken by a Charles Prince character dressed as a ballerina....

Why will people try to be something they are not? Everybody does it. Whiffles does it. He wants to give his sweetheart the impression that he is a fine singer and as he has no voice he employs a capable tenor to supply the music from behind the scree...

On one side, a crooked banker, his nephew and his orderly; on the other, the honest friend of the banker and his daughter. Substitution of male and female characters that end with two marriages....

Rigadin Mange à Bon Compte is a French silent film directed by Georges Monca , released in 1912...

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Charles Prince and Andree Pascal are in love, but her rich parents don't approve. However, Mlle Pascal's little brother certainly does, and goes into fits unless Prince is there....

Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to Pathe Freres and talks them into making a movie about him enlisting (and fighting) in the Balkans. That'l...

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Charles Prince shows up with some money from the banque. While the old man continues to play cards with his pals, Rigadin and the young wife go into a room; the husband soon follows and kicks him out. But when he dons a different hat, he isn't recogn...

Germaine Reuver's father doesn't like Charles Prince because he isn't musical. Mlle Reuver tries to teach him to play the ocarina, which he promptly swallows. It becomes lodged in his throat and he emits its dulcet tones, which cause s everyone to da...

Whiffles enters a beauty contest....

Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a young woman who's clearly prepared to be no better than she is, and snatches a love letter from the bo...