The Butter and Egg Man

Name: The Butter and Egg Man
Director: Richard Wallace
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1928-09-22
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, William Demarest, Gertrude Astor

“The "Show" of the Show Game!”

1928

1h 10m

Comedy

Director: Richard Wallace

Overview

Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out