Movies: Ernest Bourbon

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

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

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

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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...

An early Gaumont short...

French parody western....

Onésime short...

An early Gaumont short....

Onésime short...

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

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

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....

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....

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...

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

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

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

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...