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The Butcher Boy(1917)
Status: Released
Date: 1917-04-23
61%
68 Votes
Time: 0h 24m
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.
Languages: No Language.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Comique Film Company
Movie: The Butcher Boy
Top 9 Billed Cast
Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton
Buster
Al St. John
Alum
Josephine Stevens
Almondine
Charles Dudley
(uncredited)
Alice Lake
Amanda (uncredited)
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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.
Release Date
1917-04-23
Average
6.103
Rating:
3.1 startsTagline
A scream in two reels
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