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The Butcher Boy

A scream in two reels

1917 · 24m · 6.1 on TMDB

NR

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

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Production

Paramount Pictures Comique Film Company

Directed by

Roscoe Arbuckle

Where to watch

Public Domain Movies
Fawesome

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Released: April 23, 1917

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