The Butcher Boy (1917)
04/23/1917 (US) • 24m
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.
Top Billed Cast
Fatty / Saccharine
Buster
Alum
Almondine
The Manager
Accomplice
(uncredited)
Amanda (uncredited)
Miss Teachem (uncredited)
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