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The Butcher Boy (1917)
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"A scream in two reels"
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Score
61
NR
24 min
Apr 23rd, 1917
Comedy
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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.
Starring
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Buster Keaton
Al St. John
Director
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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Theatrical Release:
April 23rd, 1917
Original Language:
English
Production Companies:
Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures
Movie Tags:
short film
silent film
drag
general store
treadmill
molasses
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Casting Roundup: Rami Malek to Play Buster Keaton
Cast & Crew
R
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
as Fatty / Saccharine
B
Buster Keaton
as Buster
A
Al St. John
as Alum
J
Josephine Stevens
as Almondine
A
Arthur Earle
as The Manager
J
Joe Bordeaux
as Accomplice
R
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Director
R
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Story
J
Joseph Anthony Roach
Story
H
Herbert Warren
Editor
J
Joseph M. Schenck
Producer
F
Frank D. Williams
Director of Photography
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