The Butter and Egg Man

Sep 22, 1928

1h 10m

★ 0.0

The "Show" of the Show Game!

Overview

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

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

First National Pictures

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Cast

Peter Jones

Jack Mulhall

Mary Martin

Greta Nissen

Joe Lehman

Sam Hardy

Jack McLure

William Demarest

Fanny Lehman

Gertrude Astor

Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds, the first contestants is knocked out but the very eager (and possibly drunk) third man knocks out the champion and overcome with "boxing fever" rushes out punching at everybody and everything he meets. (britishpathe.com)

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The Butter and Egg Man

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