Movies: Ernest Bourbon

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

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

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 the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive....

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

An early Gaumont short....

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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...

An early Gaumont short...

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

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...

A French comedy short with Zigoto....

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

Onésime short...

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

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

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....

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....

Onésime short...