The Butcher Boy(1917)
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.
Movie: The Butcher Boy
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Miss Teachem (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
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6.1
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A scream in two reels
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