Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy
About Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy
Calino decides he will live as a cowboy and sets off for the West. Working hands try to show him the job. He is clumsy, breaks what they give him, and leaves a trail of wrecked gear. He cannot copy them, and the visit ends.
Cast & crew
More about Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy
Jean Durand directed. Clément Mégé plays Calino. Joë Hamman, Ernest Bourbon, Édouard Grisollet, Berthe Dagmar, and Marie Dorly are in the cast. The West was staged in France. A digital copy runs 5 minutes 51 seconds.
Themes
Making
Durand puts his comic series character into the same dusty sets he used for Hamman's westerns, and lets Calino fail at every ranch chore.
Preservation
A print survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Joë Hamman was already Durand's cowboy lead in Gaumont westerns when he appears here beside Calino.
- A viewer of the print notes that the 'America' of the short was filmed in France.
Scenes
- The cowboys try to teach Calino a ranch job, and he wrecks it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Calino veut être cowboy (1911).webm)
