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The Butcher Boy

"A scream in two reels"

NR 1917 · 0h 24m · Comedy
Starring Roscoe Arbuckle · Buster Keaton · Al St. John
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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.

Theatrical
Apr 23, 1917
Director
Roscoe Arbuckle
Writers
Roscoe Arbuckle, Joseph Anthony Roach
Producer
Joseph M. Schenck
Studio
Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures
Themes
silent film drag molasses general store treadmill short film
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Cast

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

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