The Butcher Boy
“A scream in two reels”
1917•NR•24m•6.1•Released
Comedy
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
Languages
No Language
Studio
Comique Film Company
Cast
Roscoe 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
Production
Company
Comique Film Company
Company
Paramount Pictures
Producer
Joseph M. Schenck
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