Film
The Butter and Egg Man
1928Directed by Richard Wallace
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
About The Butter and Egg Man
- Comedy
Synopsis
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
- Writers
- Adelaide Heilbron
- George S. Kaufman
