The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy
1917Comedy24 mins

Plot

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.

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

    Director

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

    Story

  • Joseph Anthony Roach

    Story

  • Frank D. Williams

    Director of Photography

  • Herbert Warren

    Editor

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' 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)

  • Agnes Neilson

    Miss Teachem (uncredited)

  • Luke the Dog

  • Runtime

    24 minutes

    Released

    1917-04-23

    Languages

    No Language

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Comique Film Company

    Paramount Pictures

    Updated

    32 days ago

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