On Borrowed Time
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“The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen”
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.
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Cast
24 people
Lionel Barrymore
Julian Northrup aka Gramps
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
You Can't Take It with You
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Brink
Known for
Rope
Suspicion
Beulah Bondi
Nellie Northrup aka Granny
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
Make Way for Tomorrow
Una Merkel
Marcia Giles
Known for
The Parent Trap
The Bank Dick
Bobs Watson
Pud Northrup
Known for
Boys Town
Dodge City
Nat Pendleton
Mr. Grimes
Known for
The Thin Man
Manhattan Melodrama
Henry Travers
Dr. Evans
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
Shadow of a Doubt
Grant Mitchell
Mr. Pilbeam
Known for
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Eily Malyon
Demetria Riffle
Known for
Going My Way
The Hound of the Baskervilles
James Burke
Sheriff Burlingame
Known for
The Maltese Falcon
At the Circus
Charles Waldron
Reverend Murdock
Known for
The Big Sleep
Stranger on the Third Floor
Ian Wolfe
Charles Wentworth
Known for
THX 1138
Witness for the Prosecution
Harold S. Bucquet Director · Claudine West Screenplay Alice D.G. Miller Screenplay
United States release July 7, 1939 · Produced in United States
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 7, 1939
Theatrical
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