The Butter and Egg Man (1928)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy
Release: 1928-09-23
Director: Richard Wallace
Writers: Adelaide Heilbron , Jack Jarmuth , George S. Kaufman (1889–1961) , Gene Towne
Language: English
Stars: Jack Mulhall , Greta Nissen , Sam Hardy , William Demarest , Gertrude Astor (1887–1977) , George Gray , Charlie Hall
Runtime: 70 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Bakom Broadways kulisser (Sweden) , The Actress and the Angel (Ireland) , The Butter and Egg Man (United States of America) , The Butter and Egg Man , The Butter & Egg Man (United States of America) , Tereyağ ve yumurta satıcısı (Turkey) , Színigazgató ur (Hungary) , 狂言成金 (Japan) , The Actress and the Angel (United Kingdom) , O Marchante (Brazil)
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, and revamps the play into a huge hit. Jones then sells back to them at a huge profit after learning of claims that the play was stolen, and returns home to get his hotel.
IMDB:tt0018736