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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

Ian Wolfe | Dorothy Adams | Henry Travers | Una Merkel | Charles Waldron | James Burke | Hans Conried | Lionel Barrymore | Beulah Bondi | Ted Oliver | Grant Mitchell | Nat Pendleton | Howard C. Hickman | Dickie Jones | George Lloyd | Eily Malyon | Cedric Hardwicke | Phillip Terry | Truman Bradley | Barbara Bedford | Bobs Watson | Sonny Bupp | Doris Rankin | Harold Schlickenmayer