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The Butcher Boy (1917) was a Silent Films - Comedy Film directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and produced by Joseph M. Schenck.

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Fatty: [to Alum] Try not to snort while you're slurping.


Fatty: [continuously chops a piece of meat that weighs the same due to his leaning on the scale] I must be losing my touch. This is a heavy pound of beef.


Fatty: [filling up Buster's molasses bucket, he walks off with it] Aren't you forgetting something?
[the quarter]
Buster: [points to the bucket] It's in there.


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One of the few films in which Buster Keaton smiles.
Like all the Arbuckle/Keaton shorts, filmed without a script. The cast and crew just took a premise and ad-libbed until they were satisfied with the results.
First film of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's new Comique studio.
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Also directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle




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Also produced by Joseph M. Schenck




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Also released in 1917




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