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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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Cast & Crew.

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine / Director / Story

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Luke the Dog

Joseph Anthony Roach

Story

Herbert Warren

Editor

Joseph M. Schenck

Producer

Frank D. Williams

Director of Photography

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 23, 1917

Status
Released

Running Time
24m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Comedy

Last updated: 2025-02-10

This Movie Is About.

drag

molasses

general store

treadmill

silent film

short

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.