The Butter and Egg Man (1928)
The "Show" of the Show Game!
70 min
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
- Release date
- September 23, 1928
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Jack Mulhall as Peter Jones
- Greta Nissen as Mary Martin
- Sam Hardy as Joe Lehman
- William Demarest as Jack McLure
- Gertrude Astor as Fanny Lehman
- George Gray as Mail Man
- Charlie Hall as Pickpocket
Crew
- Richard Wallace · Director
- Adelaide Heilbron · Writer
- Jack Jarmuth · Writer
- George S. Kaufman · Writer
- Gene Towne · Writer
- George J. Folsey · Cinematographer
- LeRoy Stone · Editor