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61% Critic Match
The Butcher Boy
“A scream in two reels”
6.1 / 10• 1917• 24m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine
Lead
Buster Keaton
Buster
Al St. John
Alum
Josephine Stevens
Almondine
AE
Arthur Earle
The Manager
JB
Joe Bordeaux
Accomplice
Charles Dudley
(uncredited)
Alice Lake
Amanda (uncredited)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Roscoe Arbuckle's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Butcher Boy is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
