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On Borrowed Time (1939)
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
“The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen”
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy · 1h 39m
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.
Cast
Lionel Barrymore
Julian Northrup aka Gramps
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Brink
Beulah Bondi
Nellie Northrup aka Granny
Una Merkel
Marcia Giles
Bobs Watson
Pud Northrup
Nat Pendleton
Mr. Grimes
Henry Travers
Dr. Evans
Grant Mitchell
Mr. Pilbeam
Eily Malyon
Demetria Riffle
James Burke
Sheriff Burlingame
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Charles Waldron
Reverend Murdock
Ian Wolfe
Charles Wentworth
Crew
- Director
- Harold S. Bucquet
- Screenplay
- Alice D.G. Miller, Frank O'Neill, Claudine West
- Novel
- Lawrence Edward Watkin
- Director of Photography
- Joseph Ruttenberg
- Original Music Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Editor
- George Boemler
- Producer
- Sidney Franklin
Details
- Release date
- 1939-07-07
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer