Scattergood Pulls the Strings

May 23, 1941

1h 6m

★ 0.0

He's the guy with a finger in every pie!

Overview

Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Pyramid Productions

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Cast

Scattergood Baines

Guy Kibbee

Jimmy Jordan

Bobs Watson

Ruth Savage

Susan Peters

Urban Downs

James Corner

Mirandy Baines

Emma Dunn

Pliny Pickett

Dink Trout

Ben Mott

Monte Blue

Squire Pettibone

Carl Stockdale

Clara Potts

Fern Emmett

Hipp

Paul White

Ed Potts

Lee 'Lasses' White

Mrs. Downs

Ann Shoemaker

Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.

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