The Butcher Boy

Apr 23, 1917

0h 24m

★ 6.1

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Comique Film Company

Paramount Pictures

The Butcher Boy Trailers

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Cast

Fatty / Saccharine

Roscoe Arbuckle

Buster

Buster Keaton

Alum

Al St. John

Almondine

Josephine Stevens

The Manager

Arthur Earle

Accomplice

Joe Bordeaux

(uncredited)

Charles Dudley

Amanda (uncredited)

Alice Lake

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Out of the three-part burlesque, the only surviving one is the one called Pufi would buy a pair of shoes, with Hungarian inserts. The film is shot on a real-life location, in a Budapest shoe shop, and it portrays the mutual efforts of a puny sales assistant and Pufi, the bladder-of-lard customer, to find him a suitable pair of shoes. The content of the other two parts is not known.

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