Scattergood Pulls the Strings
6.0
“He's the guy with a finger in every pie!”
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.
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5 films
Cast
19 people
Guy Kibbee
Scattergood Baines
Known for
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
42nd Street
Bobs Watson
Jimmy Jordan
Known for
Boys Town
Dodge City
Christy Cabanne
Jerrold T Brandt
Susan Peters
Ruth Savage
Known for
Random Harvest
Clarence Budington Kelland
James Corner
Urban Downs
Also in
Winter Carnival
What a Life
Bernard Schubert
Emma Dunn
Mirandy Baines
Known for
The Great Dictator
Son of Frankenstein
Dink Trout
Pliny Pickett
Known for
Alice in Wonderland
Monte Blue
Ben Mott
Known for
Key Largo
Orphans of the Storm
Carl Stockdale
Squire Pettibone
Known for
The Bank
The Champion
Christy Cabanne Director · Bernard Schubert Writer
United States release May 23, 1941 · Produced in United States · Production Pyramid Productions, RKO
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
Pyramid Productions
Production
RKO
Production · Distribution
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 23, 1941
Theatrical
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