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The Butcher Boy(1917)

A scream in two reels

6.1(72)24m1917-04-23

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.

Director:: Roscoe Arbuckle
Writers:: Joseph Anthony Roach, Roscoe Arbuckle
Producers:: Joseph M. Schenck
Cinematographer:: Frank D. Williams
Production:: Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures
Status:: Released

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Arthur Earle

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)