The Butter and Egg Man
The "Show" of the Show Game!
1928•70 min
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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
Director: Richard Wallace
Writers: George S. Kaufman, Adelaide Heilbron
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