On Borrowed Time (1939)
The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen
99 min
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.
- Release date
- July 7, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Lionel Barrymore as Julian Northrup (Gramps)
- Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Brink
- Beulah Bondi as Nellie (Granny)
- Una Merkel as Marcia Giles
- Bobs Watson as Pud
- 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
Crew
- Harold S. Bucquet · Director
- Alice D.G. Miller · Writer
- Frank O'Neill · Writer
- Claudine West · Writer
- Paul Osborn · Writer
- Sidney Franklin · Producer
- Franz Waxman · Composer
- Joseph Ruttenberg · Cinematographer
- George Boemler · Editor