The Butcher Boy

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The Butcher Boy

"A scream in two reels"

1917

0h 24m

6.1(66 votes)

Comedy

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.

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Cast & Crew

10 members

Acting

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Directing

Buster Keaton

Buster

Acting

Al St. John

Alum

Acting

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Acting

Arthur Earle

The Manager

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Acting

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

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Acting

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Acting

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Acting

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

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Acting

Luke the Dog

Unknown Role

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