On Borrowed Time

The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen

• Rated 7.7 out of 10
• Movie
• 1939
• 1h 39m
• Comedy
• Drama
• Fantasy

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

Starring

Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel