Comedy · United States of America · 1917 · 24m

The Butcher Boy

Director

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle as Fatty / Saccharine Buster Keaton as Buster Al St. John as Alum Josephine Stevens as Almondine Arthur Earle as The Manager Joe Bordeaux as Accomplice

Crew

Frank D. Williams — Director of Photography Herbert Warren — Editor Joseph Anthony Roach — Story Roscoe Arbuckle — Story Joseph M. Schenck — Producer

Tagline

A scream in two reels

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.

Mood & Themes

Key Collaborators

Roscoe Arbuckle Director Frank D. Williams Director of Photography Herbert Warren Editor Joseph Anthony Roach Story Roscoe Arbuckle Story Joseph M. Schenck Producer

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