Butcher Boys
'Butcher Boys' shows the fall and rise of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, America's biggest motion picture star at the beginning of the Silent Era, the horrific crime of which he was accused, and the unwavering support of his friends Mabel Normand and Buster Keaton. It's a comedy of loyalty and friendship with pie fights and pratfalls made the way only Fatty would have made it--as a silent, black and white, two-reeler. Fatty's story is told as if you were there watching it unfold.
- Runtime
- 23m
- Released
- 2009
Details
Release year: 2009
Storyline
'Butcher Boys' shows the fall and rise of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, America's biggest motion picture star at the beginning of the Silent Era, the horrific crime of which he was accused, and the unwavering support of his friends Mabel Normand and Buster Keaton. It's a comedy of loyalty and friendship with pie fights and pratfalls made the way only Fatty would have made it--as a silent, black and white, two-reeler. Fatty's story is told as if you were there watching it unfold.
Top credits
- T.J. Zale — Fatty
- Lance Ochsner — Buster
- Tasha Dixon — Mabel
- Jonathan Zadok — Zukor