On Borrowed Time
“The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen”
1939•NR•1h 39m•7.6•Released
ComedyDramaFantasy
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
Writer
Claudine West, Frank O'Neill, Alice D.G. Miller
Languages
English
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
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
Phillip Terry
Bill Lowry
Truman Bradley
James Northrup
Dorothy Adams
Florist (uncredited)
Production
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer
Sidney Franklin
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