
The Butcher Boy
Apr 23 1917
•0h 24m
•Comedy
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
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton
Buster

Al St. John
Alum

Josephine Stevens
Almondine
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