Movies: Ernest Bourbon

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

An early Gaumont short...

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

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....

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....

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

Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road with a magnifying glass, putting a straw hat on a horse, climbing a high gate, and duckwalking across a parapet. Nothing will stop him in his quest t...

Onésime 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....

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....

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

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

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

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....

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

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets....

His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences....

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...

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 ...