On Borrowed Time (1939)

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.

Updated May 11 2020

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US -

1939-07-07

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Keywords:

tree boy death

FACTS

Runtime: 99 mins Rating: 7.9 Tag Line: The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen

Cast

Ian Wolfe

Charles Wentworth

Dorothy Adams

Florist (uncredited)

Henry Travers

Dr. Evans

Una Merkel

Marcia Giles

Charles Waldron

Reverend Murdock

James Burke

Bartender (uncredited)

Lionel Barrymore

Julian Northrup (Gramps)

Beulah Bondi

Nellie Northrup (Granny)