The Butcher Boy

NR 6.3
1917 0 hr 24 min 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.

  • Cast:
    Roscoe Arbuckle , Buster Keaton , Al St. John , Josephine Stevens , Charles Dudley , Alice Lake , Luke the Dog

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Reviews

Dynamixor
1917/04/23

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Jonah Abbott
1917/04/24

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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Kien Navarro
1917/04/25

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Billy Ollie
1917/04/26

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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