
On Borrowed Time
The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen
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
Trailer
Cast

Lionel Barrymore
Julian Northrup aka Gramps

Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Brink

Nat Pendleton
Mr. Grimes

James Burke
Sheriff Burlingame

Phillip Terry
Bill Lowry

Truman Bradley
James Northrup

Sonny Bupp
Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Henry Travers
Dr. Evans

Ian Wolfe
Charles Wentworth

Dorothy Adams
Florist (uncredited)

Hans Conried
Man in Convertible (uncredited)

Howard Hickman
Chief Surgeon (uncredited)

Doris Rankin
Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)

Una Merkel
Marcia Giles

Bobs Watson
Pud Northrup

Grant Mitchell
Mr. Pilbeam

Eily Malyon
Demetria Riffle

Barbara Bedford
Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)

Dickie Jones
Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Beulah Bondi
Nellie Northrup aka Granny

George Lloyd
Chief of Police (uncredited)