On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen

NR 1939 · 99 min · ★ 7.6 · Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.

Directed by Harold S. Bucquet · Written by Claudine West

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Lionel Barrymore Julian Northrup aka Gramps
Cedric Hardwicke Mr. Brink
Beulah Bondi Nellie Northrup aka Granny
Una Merkel Marcia Giles
Bobs Watson Pud Northrup
Nat Pendleton Mr. Grimes
Henry Travers Dr. Evans
Grant Mitchell Mr. Pilbeam
Eily Malyon Demetria Riffle
James Burke Sheriff Burlingame
Charles Waldron Reverend Murdock
Ian Wolfe Charles Wentworth

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