The Butcher's Nightmare

Release Date: 1917-02-24

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Ben Turpin

as The Butcher

Margaret Templeton

as The Widow

Edward J. Laurie

as The Boy

Gypsy Abbott

as The Girl

Arthur Moon

as The Crook