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The Butcher Boy
1917 6.1 (65 votes) 0h 24m
Genres
Comedy
Production Companies
Comique Film Company
Paramount Pictures

The Butcher Boy

A scream in two reels

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Story: Joseph Anthony Roach, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Producer: Joseph M. Schenck

Director of Photography: Frank D. Williams

Top Cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John
Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens
Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley
Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake
Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

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