The Butcher Boy

“A scream in two reels”

6.1(68 votes)

April 23, 1917

24m

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.

Director

Roscoe Arbuckle

Writers

Joseph Anthony Roach, Roscoe Arbuckle

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)

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The Butcher Boy

Overview

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Buster Keaton

Al St. John

Josephine Stevens

Arthur Earle

Joe Bordeaux

Charles Dudley

Alice Lake

Agnes Neilson

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