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The Butter and Egg Man

0.0 70 mins Comedy   1928
First National Pictures  
Director(s): Richard Wallace

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

Casts of The Butter and Egg Man

Jack Mulhall

as Peter Jones

Greta Nissen

as Mary Martin

Sam Hardy

as Joe Lehman

William Demarest

as Jack McLure

Gertrude Astor

as Fanny Lehman

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