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The Butcher Boy
UNITED STATES · 1917

The Butcher Boy

Buster Keaton
general store slapstick comedy physical comedy silent film workplace hijinks
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Synopsis

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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