On Borrowed Time
The Great Broadway Stage Hit Reaches The Screen
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- Drama
- Fantasy
- Comedy
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
- orphan
- love
- death
- small town
- heartbreak
- housekeeper
- trapped
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- wish
- grandparents
- child custody
- tree
- inheritance
- grandfather grandson relationship
- grandfather
- grim reaper
- grandson
- elderly couple
- apple tree
- aunt
- troublemaker
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 7, 1939
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Truman Bradley,Doris Rankin,Beulah Bondi,George Lloyd,Nat Pendleton,James Burke,Hans Conried,Sonny Bupp,Howard Hickman,Dorothy Adamsand 14 more
- Director
- Harold S. Bucquet
- Producer
- Sidney Franklin
- Cinematography
- Joseph Ruttenberg
- Music
- Franz Waxman
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0031754