"A scream in two reels" 23 April 1917 Comedy 24 mins
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.
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Roscoe Arbuckle as Fatty / Saccharine
Buster Keaton as Buster
Al St. John as Alum
Josephine Stevens as Almondine
Arthur Earle as The Manager
Joe Bordeaux as Accomplice
Charles Dudley as (uncredited)
Alice Lake as Amanda (uncredited)
Agnes Neilson as Miss Teachem (uncredited)
Roscoe Arbuckle Director
Roscoe Arbuckle Story
Joseph Anthony Roach Story
Herbert Warren Editor
Joseph M. Schenck Producer
Frank D. Williams Director of Photography
Fatty macellaio Trailer
デブ君の女装（ファッティとキートンのおかしな肉屋） Trailer
United States 23 April 1917
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