The Butcher Boy

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The Butcher Boy (1917)

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

“A scream in two reels”

Comedy · 24m

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

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

Crew

Director
Roscoe Arbuckle
Director of Photography
Frank D. Williams
Editor
Herbert Warren
Producer
Joseph M. Schenck

Details

Release date
1917-04-23
Runtime
24m
Genres
Comedy
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America
Production
Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures