The Butcher's Nightmare

The Butcher's Nightmare — Plot

Ben, the butcher, is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his affections. He falls asleep and has a dream in which he threatens to foreclose the mortgage on the home of the girl he loves. He also makes a regular crook of the girl's brother by having his safe robbed and the money placed in the brother's pocket. Ben is aroused from his dream by his partner, who is beating him over the head with a slab of meat.

• Release date
• February 24, 1917
• Runtime
• 20 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Robin Williamson

The Butcher's Nightmare — Cast

Ben Turpin The Butcher

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Margaret Templeton The Widow

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Edward J. Laurie The Boy Gypsy Abbott The Girl

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Arthur Moon The Crook