Comedy
The Butcher Boy
"A scream in two reels"
User Score69 votes
61%6.1/10
Release1917→
Runtime0H 24M
LanguageNo Language
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
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)
Media7
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Director
Roscoe Arbuckle
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Certification
NRKeywords
silent filmdragmolassesgeneral storetreadmillshort film
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Countries:United States of America
Production:Comique Film CompanyParamount Pictures