Tuesday, August 25, 2009

On Borrowed Time (1939)

MGM
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Morbidly fascinating fantasy on death. Lionel Barrymore is visited by Mr Brinks, but because of a prior good deed is able to trap him in a tree. He finds not only himself immortal, but the whole world immortal with death up a tree. At first he is happy beyond words, but soon learns that death is as necessary as life. Bobs Watson is excellent as the boy Pud, and shares a particularly emotional scene with Barrymore towards the end.

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