The Butcher Boy (1917)

1917 · Silent film · 24 min · dir. Roscoe Arbuckle

A scream in two reels

• Comedy

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Synopsis

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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Details

Director

Roscoe Arbuckle

Writer

Roscoe Arbuckle

Cinematography

Frank D. Williams

Studio

Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures

Released

1917-04-23

Running time

24 minutes

Cast & crew

• Roscoe Arbuckle Director
• Roscoe Arbuckle
• Buster Keaton
• Al St. John
• Josephine Stevens
• AArthur Earle
• JJoe Bordeaux
• Charles Dudley
• Alice Lake

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