The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy

A scream in two reels

6.124 min
Comedy

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.

Movie Info

Release Date: 4/23/1917

Runtime: 24 min

Director: Roscoe Arbuckle

Writers: Roscoe Arbuckle

Top Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Charles Dudley

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

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