Movielogr
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
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.
Rated NR | Length 99 minutes
Actors
Lionel Barrymore | Cedric Hardwicke | Beulah Bondi | Una Merkel | Bobs Watson | Nat Pendleton | Henry Travers | Grant Mitchell | Eily Malyon | James Burke | Charles Waldron | Ian Wolfe | Phillip Terry | Truman Bradley | Dorothy Adams | Barbara Bedford | Sonny Bupp | Hans Conried | Howard C. Hickman | Dickie Jones | George Lloyd | Ted Oliver | Doris Rankin | Harold Schlickenmayer