The Butter and Egg Man

The Butter and Egg Man (1928)

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

Date of release
1928-09-22
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Richard Wallace

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Butter and Egg Man

The Butter and Egg Man is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, and Sam Hardy. It is based on the 1925 play The Butter and Egg Man. It was remade by the studio's successor company Warner Brothers as a sound film Hello, Sweetheart in 1935.

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