The Butcher Boy (1917)

04/23/1917 (US) • 24m

Comedy

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

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)


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Status

Released

Original Language

No Language

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

silent film

drag

molasses

general store

treadmill

short film

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