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On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time1939

★7.699 minComedyDramaFantasy

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.

Director

Harold S. Bucquet

Writer

Claudine West Frank O'Neill Alice D.G. Miller

Score

Stars

Lionel Barrymore Cedric Hardwicke Beulah Bondi

Cast24

Lionel Barrymore
as Julian Northrup aka Gramps
Cedric Hardwicke
as Mr. Brink
Beulah Bondi
as Nellie Northrup aka Granny
Una Merkel
as Marcia Giles
Bobs Watson
as Pud Northrup
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
C
Charles Waldron
as Reverend Murdock
Ian Wolfe
as Charles Wentworth
Phillip Terry
as Bill Lowry
Truman Bradley
as James Northrup
Dorothy Adams
as Florist (uncredited)
Barbara Bedford
as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
Sonny Bupp
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
Hans Conried
as Man in Convertible (uncredited)
Howard Hickman
as Chief Surgeon (uncredited)
Dickie Jones
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)
George Lloyd
as Chief of Police (uncredited)
T
Ted Oliver
as State Trooper (uncredited)
Doris Rankin
as Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)
H
Harold Schlickenmayer
as First Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)

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