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On Borrowed Time (1939)

On Borrowed Time (1939)

Drama Comedy Fantasy

The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen

Release Date: 1939, July 7
Directors: Harold S. Bucquet
Countries: United States of America
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Dorothy Adams, Howard Hickman, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Dickie Jones, Hans Conried, Ted Oliver, Ian Wolfe, Sonny Bupp, Una Merkel

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book death orphan housekeeper love inheritance wish child custody grandfather grandson relationship small town heartbreak trapped grandparent grandchild relationship elderly couple grim reaper tree grandson aunt grandparents apple tree grandfather troublemaker