
The Butter and Egg Man
The "Show" of the Show Game!
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
- Year: 1928
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: First National Pictures
- Keyword: silent film, lost film
- Director: Richard Wallace
- Cast: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, William Demarest, Gertrude Astor