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The Butcher Boy


Date: 1917
Type: Comedy
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White / Silent / Short
Director: Roscoe Arbuckle
Producer: Joseph M Schenck

Comment/Synopsis

Fatty Arbuckle working in a store gets incolved in various slapstick fights and comic entanglements. When the cashier (Alice Lake) he is in love with is sent away to boarding school, he dresses up as a girl and follows her, as does his rival and more comic complications develop. This was Buster Keaton's first film role and the first of 14 with Fatty Arbuckle.

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Production
Comique Film Company