- HD 1080
- Runtime: 24m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Josephine Stevens, Arthur Earle
- keywords: silent film, drag, molasses, general store, treadmill, short film
- Production_studio: Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures
- Slogan: A scream in two reels
- The The Butcher Boy is featured in the top rankings of 1917
- #6 in Top Comedy Movies of 1917
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.