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The Butcher Boy (1917)

24m

Running Time

The Butcher Boy (1917)

Name: The Butcher Boy
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1917-04-23

24m

Running Time

April 23, 1917
Release Date

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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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This Movie Is About.

silent film ·

drag ·

general store ·

molasses ·

treadmill ·

short

Cast & Crew.

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Joseph Anthony Roach

Writer

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Frank D. Williams

Cinematographer

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Herbert Warren

Editor

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Joseph M. Schenck

Producer

Luke the Dog

Actor

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Details.

Release Date
April 23, 1917

Status
Released

Running Time
24m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Comedy

Wiki.

The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Al St. John, Buster Keaton and Alice Lake. This was the first in Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Keaton's film debut.