Scattergood Baines

Scattergood Baines (1941)

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.

Date of release
1941-02-21
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Christy Cabanne
Collection
Scattergood Baines

Casting

Interesting facts

Scattergood Baines is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes and John Archer. It is based on a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland. The character of Scattergood was also popular during the days of live radio. Five other Scattergood Baines films, all starring Guy Kibbee, were subsequently made including Scattergood Pulls the Strings and Scattergood Meets Broadway which were released later the same year.

Background

The homespun but canny Baines was originally created by popular writer Clarence Budington Kelland in stories for The Saturday Evening Post, and a radio version ran from 1938 through 1950.

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