Ernest Bourbon Movies

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

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.

An early Gaumont short

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

Onésime short

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

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 take him to an interrogation room and push him out...

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

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

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 eggs, he treats his benefactor well, even though...

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

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

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.

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

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