The Butcher Boy (1917)
Country: US
Technical: bw 30m
Director: Roscoe Arbuckle
Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Josephine Stevens
Synopsis:
The butcher in a general store hankers after the boss's daughter, and when she is sent to a girls' boarding school for safekeeping, he follows her in drag. Unfortunately so does his rival.
Review:
Pretty routine slapstick: the first half in the store is taken up with molasses and a flour fight, the second with much farcical running about from room to room. As an indicator of Arbuckle's appeal, it is pretty good, his dexterity and flair much in evidence. Keaton, who plays a sidekick, lives up to his name and takes some impressive falls, his face already in his first film set in that granite-like deadpan expression.
Country: US
Technical: bw 30m
Director: Roscoe Arbuckle
Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Josephine Stevens
Synopsis:
The butcher in a general store hankers after the boss's daughter, and when she is sent to a girls' boarding school for safekeeping, he follows her in drag. Unfortunately so does his rival.
Review:
Pretty routine slapstick: the first half in the store is taken up with molasses and a flour fight, the second with much farcical running about from room to room. As an indicator of Arbuckle's appeal, it is pretty good, his dexterity and flair much in evidence. Keaton, who plays a sidekick, lives up to his name and takes some impressive falls, his face already in his first film set in that granite-like deadpan expression.
Country: US
Technical: bw 30m
Director: Roscoe Arbuckle
Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Josephine Stevens
Synopsis:
The butcher in a general store hankers after the boss's daughter, and when she is sent to a girls' boarding school for safekeeping, he follows her in drag. Unfortunately so does his rival.
Review:
Pretty routine slapstick: the first half in the store is taken up with molasses and a flour fight, the second with much farcical running about from room to room. As an indicator of Arbuckle's appeal, it is pretty good, his dexterity and flair much in evidence. Keaton, who plays a sidekick, lives up to his name and takes some impressive falls, his face already in his first film set in that granite-like deadpan expression.