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Feature film — 1917

The Butcher Boy (1917)

6.10h 24mComedy

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.

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A high-signal pick with 74 votes.

Comique Film Company / Paramount Pictures

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Director: Roscoe Arbuckle

On screen

Cast & crew

Roscoe Arbuckle as Fatty / Saccharine

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton as Buster

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John as Alum

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens as Almondine

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

A

Arthur Earle

The Manager

J

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley as (uncredited)

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake as Amanda (uncredited)

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

A

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Luke the Dog as

Luke the Dog

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