The Butcher Boy (1917)

  • NR
  • 04/23/1917 (US)
  • Comedy
  • 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.

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Director, Story

Joseph Anthony Roach

Story

Cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's headshot

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton's headshot

Buster Keaton

Buster
Al St. John's headshot

Al St. John

Alum
Josephine Stevens's headshot

Josephine Stevens

Almondine
Arthur Earle's headshot

Arthur Earle

The Manager
Joe Bordeaux's headshot

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice
Charles Dudley's headshot

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)
Alice Lake's headshot

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

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