
The Hayseed(1919)
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.


“A scream in two reels”
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.

Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty / Saccharine

Buster Keaton
Buster

Al St. John
Alum

Josephine Stevens
Almondine
Arthur Earle
The Manager
Joe Bordeaux
Accomplice

Charles Dudley
(uncredited)

Alice Lake
Amanda (uncredited)
Agnes Neilson
Miss Teachem (uncredited)
The Butcher Boy is a comedy film released in 1917 exploring themes of silent film, drag, molasses, general store, treadmill, short film. Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, it stars Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John. 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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