![]() Brink) up a tree so that he won't die until he has secured his young orphaned grandsons future. In it, he plays a grandfather who traps Death (Mr. Share On Borrowed Time (1939) was a star vehicle for Lionel Barrymore without question. Brink, joyful they will be together for eternity, reunited with Nellie. Now touched by Death, Gramps and Pud both feel wonderful and walk hand-in-hand beside Mr. Realizing that Pud's terrible pain will only end with death, Gramps takes the boy in his arms and summons Mr. Brink calls him a "baby calf." Pud does not touch the tree, but instead falls to the ground and is paralyzed. While Marcia and Gramps go looking for Pud, who has been hiding, Pud is goaded into climbing a fence built around a tree when Mr. Brinks's pronouncements, frightening Demetria and the sheriff into leaving. Marcia Giles, Gramps's loyal housekeeper, also pretends to hear Mr. Brink has said that Demetria and the sheriff are due to die soon. Just before Gramps goes to the sanitarium, he pretends that Mr. Heartbroken when Gramps tells him he can't come too, Pud runs off. After he gently tells Pud of his decision to go with Brink, Pud cries that he loves his Gramps so much that he wants to go with Mr. The next day, Evans comes with papers to commit Gramps and turn Pud over to Demetria, thus convincing Gramps to let Brink out of the tree. Gramps wrestles with his conscience and thinks of his own old age and the burden that he will be to Pud, but cannot let Brink down. He tells him that a world without death will mean added suffering for those with incurable diseases, the old and infirm. Evans begs Gramps to let Brink down, and appeals to his humanity. Evans conducts experiments to disprove Gramps's story, but nothing dies, except a mouse that touches the apple tree. Evans suspects that there is truth to Gramps's insistence that Death is trapped in his apple tree when several cases of certain death do not occur. Brink is unable to come down from the tree, because only Gramps has the power to release him, the result of a wish he made after doing a good deed.Īfter the beloved family dog dies upon touching the tree, Gramps orders a fence built round the tree to protect others and Demetria tries to have Gramps's lawyer, Ben Pilbeam, and Dr. Brink visits Gramps, Gramps resists, luring him into his apple tree, and refusing to give him permission to leave. Brink visits the ailing Nellie, Demetria plots to get Pud away from Gramps. Nellie too is aware of her niece Demetria's tendencies, but after Mr. Gramps, who calls Demetria a "pismire," knows her true nature. Pud's maternal aunt, Demetria Riffle, a sanctimonious, greedy old maid, pretends to be fond of the boy, but really cares nothing for him and only wants his $50,000 inheritance. This leaves their young son Pud in the care of his beloved grandfather, Julian Northrup, and his grandmother Nellie. James Northrup and his wife, causing their tragic death in a car accident.
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