ONÉSIME ON THE WAR PATH

 

1913, France

Aka… Onésime Sur le Sentier de la Guerre / ‘Onésime On the War Path’ (Fr), Onésime Peau-Rouge / ‘Onésime the Indian’ / Onésime Correspondant de Guerre / ‘Onésime War Correspondent’ (alt Fr)

Running time: 335mt (Fr)

Production Company: Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont [Léon Gaumont]

Distributor: Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont [Léon Gaumont] (03/13, Fr)

Director: Jean Durand; P: Léon Gaumont

Cast: C: Onésime [Ernest Bourbon] (Onésime), Gaston Modot (Perno Gomez) & Berthe Dagmar [Albertine-Marie Hamon] (Carmencita Olavacca), Léon Pollos & Alphonse Fouché (Indians)

     Comments: ONÉSIME ON THE WAR PATH was the second of two westerns that starred Ernest Bourbon as ‘Onésime’. The other was ONÉSIME HAS A COWBOY-STYLE DUEL (1912, Fr).  Bourbon appeared in dozens of 'Onésime'  films. Gaumont took an ad out for 'Onésime Sur le Sentier de la Guerre' in the French Ciné-Journal on March 8, 1913, with the tagline ‘Aventures iresistiblement comiques du legendaire héros chez les Indiens’ / ‘The legendary heroes adventures among the Indians’.

     Miss Dagmar and director Jean Durand were married.

     Just for the record the name ‘Onésime’ is of Greek origin meaning "useful" or "beneficial” person.

[submitted by Michael Ferguson]