The Butcher Boy

1917

Action / Comedy

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2091 2.1K

silent film drag molasses general store treadmill short film

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Photo
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Top cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Photo
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton as Buster
Arthur Earle Photo
Arthur Earle as The Manager
Luke the Dog Photo
Luke the Dog as
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224.71 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
Not Rated
24 fps
12 hr 24 min
Seeds 2
416.9 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
Not Rated
24 fps
12 hr 24 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Klay W 6 / 10

Classic movie with laughter

Classic movie with laughter
Reviewed by William D 8 / 10

I watched this for Keaton, but Arbuckle was

I watched this for Keaton, but Arbuckle was a very funny guy too.
Reviewed by sean l 5 / 10

Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton (in his first-ever

Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton (in his first-ever film role) square off and ruin a humble neighborhood grocery in this early 20th century silent comedy. Arbuckle works the meat counter, carelessly flinging knives and beef slabs around the room whilst wooing the shopkeep's daughter, and Keaton tests his cinematic sea legs as a wiry customer with a pail needing molasses. The story couldn't be more rudimentary - it's just a troupe of well-versed vaudevillians, riffing on an idea - but the marquee names have strong chemistry right off the bat and that carries it a long way. The second reel, set in a girls-only boarding school with the big man disguised by a frilly dress, is more manic but less reliably entertaining. Legend has it that Keaton nailed all his scenes on the very first take, unheard-of at the time, which got his foot in the door and earned him repeat roles in several future Arbuckle comedies. Curious in a historical sense, still good for a number of light laughs, but the storytelling is limited and the picture quality (even in the restored edition) is pretty rough.
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