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The Butcher Boy

6.1191724mNRMovieComedy

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.

DirectorRoscoe Arbuckle
WritersRoscoe Arbuckle·Joseph Anthony Roach
ProducerJoseph M. Schenck

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Cast · Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

RARoscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine
BKBuster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Buster
AJAl St. John
Al St. John
Alum
JSJosephine Stevens
Josephine Stevens
Almondine
AE
Arthur Earle
The Manager
JB
Joe Bordeaux
Accomplice
CDCharles Dudley
Charles Dudley
(uncredited)
ALAlice Lake
Alice Lake
Amanda (uncredited)
AN
Agnes Neilson
Miss Teachem (uncredited)
LDLuke the Dog
Luke the Dog

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