Film
The Butcher Boy
1917 · 24m · Comedy
A scream in two reels
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- 6.3
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Overview
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
Cast
Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton
Buster
Al St. John
Alum
Josephine Stevens
Almondine
Arthur Earle
The Manager
Joe Bordeaux
Accomplice
Charles Dudley
(uncredited)
Alice Lake
Amanda (uncredited)
Agnes Neilson
Miss Teachem (uncredited)
Crew
- Roscoe ArbuckleDirector · Story
- Joseph Anthony RoachStory
- Joseph M. SchenckProducer
- Frank D. WilliamsDirector of Photography
- Herbert WarrenEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 23, 1917
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 24m
- Rated
- NR
- Genres
- Comedy
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