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The Butcher Boy

24m

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

Buster Keaton makes his film debut as one of a number of troublesome customers at a general store.

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