The Butcher Boy (1917 film)
The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. This was the first in Arbuckles series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Keatons film debut.
A contemporary Variety review indicates the film was wellreceived, stating The Comique Film Co.s series of Arbuckle tworeelers starts off with Fatty shaking out a bag of laugh making tricks. The cast fits the star, and not the least important member is Luke, the bull terrier. It is a wonder. Arbuckles juggling with the accessories of the country store where he is an important factor, also his way of handling the feminine clothes worn in his visit to the girls boarding school, is done in such a serious, earnest way the comic effect is all the more forceful... The first of the Arbuckle series has set a good mark to aim at. While there is some slapstick, the comedy is recommended.
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