The Butcher Boy

Name: The Butcher Boy
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1917
Duration: 24 min
Rating: 6.075

1917 · 24 min

Comedy

★ 6.1

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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.

Crew

Director Roscoe Arbuckle
Story Joseph Anthony Roach
Story Roscoe Arbuckle
Director of Photography Frank D. Williams

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton
Buster
Al St. John
Alum
Josephine Stevens
Almondine
A
Arthur Earle
The Manager
J
Joe Bordeaux
Accomplice
Charles Dudley
(uncredited)
Alice Lake
Amanda (uncredited)
A
Agnes Neilson
Miss Teachem (uncredited)
Luke the Dog

Crew

Director — Roscoe Arbuckle
Story — Joseph Anthony Roach
Story — Roscoe Arbuckle
Director of Photography — Frank D. Williams

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