Released:
1941-02-21

Overview:
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.

Director:
Christy Cabanne

Runtime:
1h 9min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Guy Kibbee
  as
  Scattergood Baines
• 
  Carol Hughes
  as
  Helen Parker
• 
  John Archer
  as
  Johnny Bones
• 
  Dink Trout
  as
  Pliny Pickett
• 
  Emma Dunn
  as
  Mirandy Baines