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1917Comedy0h 24m

The Butcher Boy

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.

6.1
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Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

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Arthur Earle

The Manager

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Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

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Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

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Information

StatusReleased
Original Languageen

Keywords

silent filmdragmolassesgeneral storetreadmillshort film

Production

Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures