
On Borrowed Time
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.
Director Harold S. Bucquet
Trailer
Cast

Beulah Bondi
Nellie Northrup aka Granny

Truman Bradley
James Northrup

Dickie Jones
Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Lionel Barrymore
Julian Northrup aka Gramps

Una Merkel
Marcia Giles

Henry Travers
Dr. Evans

Ian Wolfe
Charles Wentworth

Dorothy Adams
Florist (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp
Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Bobs Watson
Pud Northrup

Nat Pendleton
Mr. Grimes

James Burke
Sheriff Burlingame

Barbara Bedford
Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)

Hans Conried
Man in Convertible (uncredited)

Howard Hickman
Chief Surgeon (uncredited)

Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Brink

Grant Mitchell
Mr. Pilbeam

Eily Malyon
Demetria Riffle

Phillip Terry
Bill Lowry

George Lloyd
Chief of Police (uncredited)

Doris Rankin
Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)