Based on the play of the same title by George S. Kaufman which opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St., on September 23, 1925 and ran for 243 performances. This is the first of six film adaptations of the play released from 1928 to 1953.
A 1920s slang term popularized by Texas Guinan, a butter-and-egg man is a traveling businessman eager to spend large amounts of money in the big city, so someone wealthy and unwary.
This film is presumed lost.