La Bouteille de Patouillard (1911)

• 45%
• 1911
• Comedy
• Romeo Bosetti

Bill sets out to buy a bottle of champagne. The transaction being satisfactorily accomplished, he remembers that he does not possess a corkscrew, and consequently he request the wine merchant to remove the cork for him. This done, Bill places his finger to the mouth of the bottle and departs upon his homeward way. As may be imagined, before he has gone very far he discovers that the improvised stopper is resulting in a leakage of champagne, and, in investigating matters, he lets fly a tremendous volume into the faces of passes-by. This occurs on several occasions, until poor Bill finds himself once more involved as the quarry in a wild comedian hunt. After numerous narrow escapes he throws off his pursuers and sits down by the roadside to rest. Sleep overcomes him, and two robbers take advantage of his somnolence to run through his pockets. But Bill recovers his senses just in time, and removing his fingers from the bottle, he drenches the thieves with wine and puts them to flight. Stumbling wearily onward with the bottle clutched to his bosom, he eventually reaches his home, and, with the delightful simplicity which always characterizes him, sits down on the doorstep to sample the precious liquor. His surprise and dismay are quite pathetic when, on taking his finger from the aperture, he discovers that not a drop is left!