Movies: Ernest Bourbon

A French comedy short with Zigoto....

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

An early Gaumont short....

Onésime short...

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

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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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