The Butter and Egg Man
The "Show" of the Show Game!
September 22, 1928
70 min
✓ Released 35846 days ago
Comedy
9.0
User Score
1 votes
About
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
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Richard Wallace
Runtime: 70 min
Top Cast
Jack Mulhall
Peter Jones
Greta Nissen
Mary Martin
Sam Hardy
Joe Lehman
William Demarest
Jack McLure
Gertrude Astor
Fanny Lehman
