The Butcher Boy (1917)

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

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

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Buster

Al St. John

Alum

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Arthur Earle

The Manager

Joe Bordeaux

Accomplice

Charles Dudley

(uncredited)

Alice Lake

Amanda (uncredited)

Agnes Neilson

Miss Teachem (uncredited)

Luke the Dog