Scattergood Pulls the Strings

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

66 mins | Comedy | May 23, 1941

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.

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

66 mins | Comedy | May 23, 1941

Scattergood Pulls the Strings
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.
Producers RKO Radio Pictures, Pyramid Productions
Original title Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Directors Christy Cabanne
Writers Clarence Budington Kelland, Bernard Schubert, Christy Cabanne

Cast

Guy Kibbee

as Scattergood Baines

Bobs Watson

as Jimmy Jordan

Susan Peters

as Ruth Savage

James Corner

as Urban Downs

Emma Dunn

as Mirandy Baines

Dink Trout

as Pliny Pickett

Monte Blue

as Ben Mott

Carl Stockdale

as Squire Pettibone

Fern Emmett

as Clara Potts

Paul White

as Hipp

Lee 'Lasses' White

as Ed Potts

Ann Shoemaker

as Mrs. Downs

Gordon Hart

as Homer Savage

Howard Hickman

as Withers (as Howard C. Hickman)

Earle Hodgins

as Deputy