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On Borrowed Time is a 1939 film about the role death plays in life, and how humanity cannot live without it. It is adapted from Paul Osborn 's 1938 Broadway hit play. The play, based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, has been revived twice on Broadway since its original run. The story is a retelling of a Greek fable in which Death is ...
On Borrowed Time (1939) -- (Movie Clip) We're Not Going Far An efficient MGM opening, after a prologue linking the story to Chaucer, we infer that the hitchhiker (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) is not mortal, whereupon we meet Demetria (Eily Malyon) the reverend and Charlie (Charles Waldron, Ian Wolfe), then the stars Grandpa Julian (Lionel Barrymore) and Pub (Bobs Watson), in On Borrowed Time, 1939.
- Harold S. Bucquet, Marvin Stuart
- Lionel Barrymore
On Borrowed Time: Directed by Harold S. Bucquet. With Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel. A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.
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- Drama, Family, Fantasy
- Harold S. Bucquet
- 1939-07-07
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Written by on October 4, 2019. 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."
Synopsis. 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."
- 99 min
When Mr. Brink (Death) comes to keep an appointment with a young married couple, the result is a now orphaned boy left behind. His family affectionately calls this boy John Pud, including his Gramps, Julian. Pud goes to live with his wheelchair-ridden Gramps and his Granny. Pud deceased father was a wealthy doctor who had left a tidy sum of ...
