The Butcher Boy

Name: The Butcher Boy (1917)
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 53
Cast: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Josephine Stevens, Arthur Earle

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The Butcher Boy

1917

30m

Comedy

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Buster Keaton is an unruly customer in Fatty Arbuckle's store.

Variety Staff

Variety

May 11, 2018

Arbuckle juggling with the accessories of the country store where he is an important factor... is done in such a serious, earnest way the comic effect is all the more forceful.

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Grant Watson

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Apr 23, 2025

6/10

Somebody slipping in a comical fashion was funny in Shakespeare’s time. It was probably funny before Greek and Roman theatre. It was funny when Arbuckle did it, and those same pratfalls – preserved for more than a century – still hold up today.

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Klay W

@Jamie Apr 29, 2025

Classic movie with laughter

William D

@acsdoug Mar 13, 2023

I watched this for Keaton, but Arbuckle was a very funny guy too.

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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Director

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Fatty

Al St. John

Alum

Buster Keaton

Buster

Josephine Stevens

Almondine

Arthur Earle

The Manager

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Synopsis

Buster Keaton is an unruly customer in Fatty Arbuckle's store.

Director: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Producer: Joseph M. Schenck
Screenwriter: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Joseph Anthony Roach
Production Co: Comique Film Company
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 30m

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