Figure 1.--"On Borrowed Time" is a sentimental fantasy with the Angel of Death / Grim Reaper (Mr. Brick) getting chased up a tree. The boy, Pud, wears short pants. He is about 8 or 9 years old. Johnny Sheffield played the role on Broadway. Bobs Watson played Pud in the film. The grandfather was played by the beloved actor Lionel Barreymore.

"On Borrowed Time" is a sentimental fantasy with the Angel of Death / Grim Reaper (Mr. Brick) getting chased up a tree. The boy, Pud, wears short pants. He is about 8 or 9 years old. Johnny Sheffield played the role on Broadway. Bobs Watson played Pud in the film. The grandfather was played by the beloved actor Lionel Barreymore. At the end of the film, Mr. Brick takes both the grandfather and Pud. Julian, Beulah Bondi plays "Granny" Nellie. Hans Conried appears in the film. Conreid was a popular actor on American television in the 1950s. Barrymore plays Gramps Julian Northrup. As in many of his films, he is a good-spirited curmudgeon who absolutely dotes on his grandson Pud. Gramps is delifgted with Pud and his boyish mischief. Pud's parents have tragically been killed in an automobile accident. There is an evil spinster aunt trying to get Pud's inheritance. Mr. Brink played by Cedric Hardwicke playsthe angel of death came to get them. Brick visits the family again, but is foiled. Pud and Gramps discover that anyone who gets into an apple tree in the backyard cannot get down until gramps tells them they can come down. Thus the two conspire to trap Mr. Brink in the tree. The film is what the British call "sappY". and Americans call a "tear jearker". This was the accepted movie appeal at the time.