Film · 1917

The Butcher Boy

24 min · Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle · NR

6.172
ratings

A scream in two reels

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.

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

A

Arthur Earle

The Manager

J

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

A

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Crew

Director: Roscoe Arbuckle
Producer: Joseph M. Schenck
Writer: Joseph Anthony Roach, Roscoe Arbuckle
Editor: Herbert Warren
Cinematography: Frank D. Williams

Details

Studios: Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Languages: No Language
Certification: NR
Release: April 23, 1917

Themes

silent filmdragmolassesgeneral storetreadmillshort film

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