On Borrowed Time

Jul 7, 1939

1h 39m

★ 7.5

The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

On Borrowed Time Trailers

Cast

Julian Northrup aka Gramps

Lionel Barrymore

Mr. Brink

Cedric Hardwicke

Nellie Northrup aka Granny

Beulah Bondi

Marcia Giles

Una Merkel

Pud Northrup

Bobs Watson

Mr. Grimes

Nat Pendleton

Dr. Evans

Henry Travers

Mr. Pilbeam

Grant Mitchell

Demetria Riffle

Eily Malyon

Sheriff Burlingame

James Burke

Reverend Murdock

Charles Waldron

Charles Wentworth

Ian Wolfe

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