Independent Films, Comedy, Classics
Butcher Boy
by CharlieChaplin
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.
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Butcher Boy by CharlieChaplin is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain 3.0 License.
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Language: Silent
Year of production: 1917
Length: 30 min
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
Directors:
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Actors:
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Buster Keaton
Al St. John
Josephine Stevens
Arthur Earle
Joe Bordeaux
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