The Butter and Egg ManMovie
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
About The Butter and Egg Man
The Butter and Egg Man is a 1928 comedy movie directed by Richard Wallace.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 10m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, William Demarest. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
