The Butcher Boy

movie

A scream in two reels

Released April 23, 1917

Genres:

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.

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle
as
Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton
as
Buster
Al St. John
as
Alum
Josephine Stevens
as
Almondine
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Arthur Earle
as
The Manager
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Joe Bordeaux
as
Accomplice
Charles Dudley
as
(uncredited)
Alice Lake
as
Amanda (uncredited)
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Agnes Neilson
as
Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Crew

Roscoe Arbuckle
as
Director
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Joseph Anthony Roach
as
Story
Roscoe Arbuckle
as
Story
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Herbert Warren
as
Editor
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Joseph M. Schenck
as
Producer
Frank D. Williams
as
Director of Photography

The Butcher Boy

Genres:

Overview

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Buster Keaton

Al St. John

Josephine Stevens

Arthur Earle

Joe Bordeaux

Charles Dudley

Alice Lake

Agnes Neilson

Crew

Roscoe Arbuckle

Joseph Anthony Roach

Roscoe Arbuckle

Herbert Warren

Joseph M. Schenck

Frank D. Williams