The Butcher Boy

NR
0h 24m
1917
6.1 /10 (65)

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.

Country : United States of America
Genre : Comedy
Languages : No Language
Released Date: 1917-04-23

Top Billed Cast

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

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