The Butcher Boy
A scream in two reels
1917 | 24m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Roscoe Arbuckle |
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| Writer: | Joseph Anthony Roach, Roscoe Arbuckle |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 23, 1917 |
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| Director: | Roscoe Arbuckle |
| Writer: | Joseph Anthony Roach, Roscoe Arbuckle |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | silent film, drag, molasses, general store, treadmill, short film |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures, Comique Film Company |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2026 Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Roscoe Arbuckle | Fatty / Saccharine |
| Buster Keaton | Buster |
| Al St. John | Alum |
| Josephine Stevens | Almondine |
| Arthur Earle | The Manager |
| Joe Bordeaux | Accomplice |
| Charles Dudley | (uncredited) |
| Alice Lake | Amanda (uncredited) |
| Agnes Neilson | Miss Teachem (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Joseph Anthony Roach | Story |
| Herbert Warren | Editor |
| Roscoe Arbuckle | Story, Director |
| Frank D. Williams | Director of Photography |
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| Joseph M. Schenck | Producer |
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