On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time (1939)

The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen

  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
  • Release Date: 1939-07-07
  • User Rating: 7.478/10 from 23 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 39min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Harold S. Bucquet
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From 23 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Lionel Barrymore

    as Julian Northrup aka Gramps

  • Cedric Hardwicke

    as Mr. Brink

  • Beulah Bondi

    as Nellie Northrup aka Granny

  • Una Merkel

    as Marcia Giles

  • Bobs Watson

    as Pud Northrup

  • Nat Pendleton

    as Mr. Grimes

  • Henry Travers

    as Dr. Evans

  • Grant Mitchell

    as Mr. Pilbeam

  • Eily Malyon

    as Demetria Riffle

  • James Burke

    as Sheriff Burlingame

  • Charles Waldron

    as Reverend Murdock

  • Ian Wolfe

    as Charles Wentworth

  • Phillip Terry

    as Bill Lowry

  • Truman Bradley

    as James Northrup

  • Dorothy Adams

    as Florist (uncredited)

  • Barbara Bedford

    as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)

  • Sonny Bupp

    as Boy in Tree (uncredited)

  • Hans Conried

    as Man in Convertible (uncredited)

  • Howard Hickman

    as Chief Surgeon (uncredited)

  • Dickie Jones

    as Boy in Tree (uncredited)

  • George Lloyd

    as Chief of Police (uncredited)

  • Ted Oliver

    as State Trooper (uncredited)

  • Doris Rankin

    as Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)

  • Harold Schlickenmayer

    as First Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
Writing Frank O'Neill Screenplay
Writing Claudine West Screenplay
Directing Harold S. Bucquet Director
Writing Alice D.G. Miller Screenplay
Writing Lawrence Edward Watkin Novel
Writing Paul Osborn Theatre Play
Costume & Make-Up Jack Dawn Makeup Artist
Art Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
Editing George Boemler Editor
Camera Joseph Ruttenberg Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up Dolly Tree Costumer
Sound Douglas Shearer Recording Supervision
Production Sidney Franklin Producer
Sound Franz Waxman Original Music Composer
Art Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration
Art John S. Detlie Assistant Art Director

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