
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

Phillip Terry
Bill Lowry

Lionel Barrymore
Julian Northrup aka Gramps

Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Brink

Beulah Bondi
Nellie Northrup aka Granny

Henry Travers
Dr. Evans

Dorothy Adams
Florist (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp
Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Howard Hickman
Chief Surgeon (uncredited)

Dickie Jones
Boy in Tree (uncredited)

George Lloyd
Chief of Police (uncredited)

Doris Rankin
Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)

Truman Bradley
James Northrup

Nat Pendleton
Mr. Grimes

Eily Malyon
Demetria Riffle

James Burke
Sheriff Burlingame

Barbara Bedford
Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)

Hans Conried
Man in Convertible (uncredited)

Una Merkel
Marcia Giles

Bobs Watson
Pud Northrup

Grant Mitchell
Mr. Pilbeam

Ian Wolfe
Charles Wentworth