Gaston Modot Movies

Lucien Bataille finds himself hired as a secretary to an elderly man. His principal duty is to make sure that the man's niece, Berthe Dagmar, doesn't...

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

Calino decides to take a boarder. The gentleman turns out to be a huntsman. All goes well until pay day when the roomer refuses to get out of bed to...

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the...

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

Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène."

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,...

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...

There is one joke in this slapstick from Jean Durand's comedy unit at Gaumont: Calino wants to win a boxing match, and decides that he needs to...

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

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...

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

An early Gaumont short

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

For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was murdered but repeatedly he reappears. Inspector...