The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy

1917
24m
6.1

6.1/10

74 votes • View on IMDb
Comedy

"A scream in two reels"

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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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Comique Film Company Paramount Pictures
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
No Language

Keywords

silent film drag molasses general store treadmill short film

Quick Facts

Release Date April 23, 1917
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0007761

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)

Luke the Dog
Luke the Dog

Key Crew

Roscoe Arbuckle
Director
Joseph M. Schenck
Producer
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