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Afiche de The Butcher Boy

Comedy · 1917 · 24 min

The Butcher Boy.

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.

Director: Roscoe Arbuckle

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Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton

Al St. John

Josephine Stevens

Josephine Stevens

Studios

Comique Film Company Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Country

🇺🇸United States of America

Languages

No Language

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Available in United States (data from JustWatch via TMDB · click → opens in provider)

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Fawesome

🇺🇸Estados UnidosApr 23, 1917

IMDb

6.3 /10

2k votes

Rotten Tomatoes

The tomato isn't ripe

Metacritic

Metacritic took the day off

TMDB

6.1 /10

71 votes

Letterboxd

6.3 /10

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Weighted average

6.2/10

IMDb6.3
TMDB6.1
Lbxd6.3