The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy

A scream in two reels

1917•24m•6.1/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.1/10(69)

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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Production

Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

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