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Buster’s Beginnings

Moonshine

18m

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

A pair of revenue agents track down outlaw bootleggers in the Virginia Hills.

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