The Butter and Egg Man
“The "Show" of the Show Game!”
1928•1h 10m•9.0•Released
Comedy
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
Director
Richard Wallace
Studio
First National Pictures
Cast
Jack Mulhall
Peter Jones
Greta Nissen
Mary Martin
Sam Hardy
Joe Lehman
William Demarest
Jack McLure
Gertrude Astor
Fanny Lehman
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