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The Butter and Egg Man

The Butter and Egg Man

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 1928

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

The Butter and Egg Man

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Director

Richard Wallace

Description

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