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The Butcher Boy

Film

The Butcher Boy

A scream in two reels

6.1

0h 24m

1917

“A scream in two reels”

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.

Director

Roscoe Arbuckle

Comedy

silent filmdragmolassesgeneral storetreadmillshort film

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Cast & Crew

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

as Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

as Buster

Al St. John

Al St. John

as Alum

Josephine Stevens

Josephine Stevens

as Almondine

Arthur Earle

as The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

as Accomplice

Charles Dudley

Charles Dudley

as (uncredited)

Alice Lake

Alice Lake

as Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

as Miss Teachem (uncredited)

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