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.
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
Willie Best
as Hipp
Fern Emmett
as Clara Potts
Lee 'Lasses' White
as Ed Potts
Kate Harrington
as Gertrude Brown
Joseph Crehan
as Keith
Edward Earle
as Crane
Bradley Page
as McKettrick
