Film · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
On Borrowed Time (1939)
The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen
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.
- Director
- Harold S. Bucquet
- Writers
- Claudine West, Frank O'Neill, Alice D.G. Miller
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- July 7, 1939
Cast
Lionel BarrymoreJulian Northrup aka Gramps
Cedric HardwickeMr. Brink
Beulah BondiNellie Northrup aka Granny
Una MerkelMarcia Giles
Bobs WatsonPud Northrup
Nat PendletonMr. Grimes
Henry TraversDr. Evans
Grant MitchellMr. Pilbeam
Eily MalyonDemetria Riffle
James BurkeSheriff Burlingame- Charles WaldronReverend Murdock
Ian WolfeCharles Wentworth
Phillip TerryBill Lowry
Truman BradleyJames Northrup
Dorothy AdamsFlorist (uncredited)
Barbara BedfordMrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
Sonny BuppBoy in Tree (uncredited)
Hans ConriedMan in Convertible (uncredited)
Howard HickmanChief Surgeon (uncredited)
Dickie JonesBoy in Tree (uncredited)
