Still from The Butcher Boy — The Butcher Boy (1917) — Roscoe ArbucklePhotographed by Frank D. Williams

Roscoe Arbuckle

The Butcher Boy

Name: The Butcher Boy
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1917
Duration: 24 min

English / 1917 / 24m

Not streamingNot currently on the Criterion Channel.

Comedy

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Synopsis

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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Buster’s Beginnings
Position 1
Included in
March 2023
Position 14

Credits

Crew

DirectorRoscoe Arbuckle

CinematographerFrank D. Williams

EditorHerbert Warren

Producer

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckleas Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keatonas Buster

Al St. Johnas Alum

Josephine Stevensas Almondine

Arthur Earleas The Manager

Joe Bordeauxas Accomplice

Charles Dudleyas (uncredited)

Alice Lakeas Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilsonas Miss Teachem (uncredited)