The Butter and Egg Man
19289.01h 10m
Comedy
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
Cast: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, William Demarest, Gertrude Astor
