The Butter and Egg Man

(1928)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1928

Runtime: 70 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Richard Wallace

Cast: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Сэм Харди, William Demarest, Гертруда Эстор

Plot

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