Onésime champion de boxe

Name: Onésime champion de boxe
Director: Jean Durand
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1913
Cast: Ernest Bourbon, Gaston Modot, Édouard Grisollet, Mademoiselle Davrières

1913 Comedy Directed by Jean Durand

About Onésime champion de boxe

Onésime, a skinny Ernest Bourbon, takes up boxing so he can meet an American fighter who is touring France. The training is mostly Bourbon being hit. In the match itself Durand cuts in a trick shot among the punches.

Cast & crew

More about Onésime champion de boxe

Jean Durand directed this Gaumont Onésime short. Gaston Modot is in the company. An English release title was Simple Simon as a Boxing Champion.

Themes

A weakling in the ring
An American on a French tour
A trick shot in the bout
Onésime
boxing
American fighter
slapstick
Gaumont

Making

The Gaumont troupe around Durand also made comic westerns they called westerns-Camembert. The boxing short stays in town and spends its trickery on the ring.

Notes

Ernest Bourbon plays Onésime.
The opponent is an American touring France, not a local club fighter.
Durand's Onésime shorts used more camera tricks than his straight chase films. One of those tricks is saved for the bout.
An English title on the short was Simple Simon as a Boxing Champion.