The Butter and Egg Man

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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 22, 1928

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

First National Pictures

Cast

William Demarest,Jack Mulhall,Sam Hardy,Gertrude Astor,Greta Nissen

Director

Richard Wallace

Writer

Adelaide Heilbron,George S. Kaufman

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0018736