On Borrowed Time

1939

English

♡ 2

100%

based on novel or book

grandparent grandchild relationship

small town

tree

wish

Harold S. Bucquet Director

Sonny Bupp as Boy in Tree

Ian Wolfe as Charles Wentworth

Henry Travers as Dr. Evans

Lionel Barrymore as Julian Northrup (Gramps)

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.