sentences:  Set in small-town America, the film stars Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.Barrymore plays Julian Northrup ("Gramps"), a wheelchair user (Barrymore had broken his hip twice and was now using a wheelchair, though he continued to act), who, with his wife Nellie, played by Bondi, are raising their orphaned grandson, Pud.Hardwicke plays Mr.