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The Butcher Boy
A scream in two reels
Apr 23, 1917 · 24m
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Comedy
PLOT
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.
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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)
Directed by
Roscoe Arbuckle
DETAILS
Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures
Country
US
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