

The Butcher Boy
Visit website6.1/10 • 65
1917-04-23 • 0h 24m
A scream in two reels
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.
- Directors
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Editors
- Herbert Warren

The Butcher Boy
Visit website1917-04-23 • 0h 24m
6.1/10 • 65
A scream in two reels
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.
- Directors
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Editors
- Herbert Warren
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsRoscoe 'Fatty' 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)
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- silent filmdragmolassesgeneral storetreadmillshort film