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

When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.

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