

07/07/1939
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.

Lionel Barrymore
as Julian Northrup aka Gramps

Cedric Hardwicke
as Mr. Brink

Beulah Bondi
as Nellie Northrup aka Granny

Una Merkel
as Marcia Giles

Bobs Watson
as Pud Northrup

Nat Pendleton
as Mr. Grimes

Henry Travers
as Dr. Evans

Grant Mitchell
as Mr. Pilbeam

Eily Malyon
as Demetria Riffle

James Burke
as Sheriff Burlingame

Charles Waldron
as Reverend Murdock

Ian Wolfe
as Charles Wentworth

Phillip Terry
as Bill Lowry

Truman Bradley
as James Northrup

Dorothy Adams
as Florist (uncredited)

Barbara Bedford
as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)

Hans Conried
as Man in Convertible (uncredited)

Howard Hickman
as Chief Surgeon (uncredited)

Dickie Jones
as Boy in Tree (uncredited)

George Lloyd
as Chief of Police (uncredited)

Ted Oliver
as State Trooper (uncredited)

Doris Rankin
as Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)

Harold Schlickenmayer
as First Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
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