On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

99 mins | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy | July 7, 1939

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.

On Borrowed Time

99 mins | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy | July 7, 1939

On Borrowed Time
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title On Borrowed Time
Directors Harold S. Bucquet
Writers Frank O'Neill, Alice D.G. Miller, Lawrence Edward Watkin, Claudine West, Paul Osborn

Cast

Lionel Barrymore

as Julian Northrup aka Gramps

Cedric Hardwicke

as Mr. Brink

Beulah Bondi

as Nellie Northrup aka Granny

Una Merkel

as Marcia Giles

Bobs Watson

as Pud Northrup

Nat Pendleton

as Mr. Grimes

Henry Travers

as Dr. Evans

Grant Mitchell

as Mr. Pilbeam

Eily Malyon

as Demetria Riffle

James Burke

as Sheriff Burlingame

Charles Waldron

as Reverend Murdock

Ian Wolfe

as Charles Wentworth

Phillip Terry

as Bill Lowry

Truman Bradley

as James Northrup

Dorothy Adams

as Florist (uncredited)

Barbara Bedford

as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp

as Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Hans Conried

as Man in Convertible (uncredited)

Howard Hickman

as Chief Surgeon (uncredited)

Dickie Jones

as Boy in Tree (uncredited)

George Lloyd

as Chief of Police (uncredited)

Ted Oliver

as State Trooper (uncredited)

Doris Rankin

as Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)

Harold Schlickenmayer

as First Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)