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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
9th Jan, 2011 06:01:11 PM
1) Googling for death apple tree produces the information that this is On Borrowed Time (and also that you could have found this out by looking on the Death Takes a Holiday trope page).
Vulco1
Since: Oct, 2016
28th Oct, 2016 08:58:52 AM
The second one may be "Death takes a Holiday" from 1934. Meet Joe Black, with Brad Pitt is a Remake, kinda.
1) Some old black and white movie. Death comes to claim some guy. I think the guy had an apple tree that whenever someone goes up in it, they always get stuck and can't come down. So the guy asks Death to go up into the apple tree and get him one last apple before he dies. Death does as he asks, and then he is stuck in the tree. Nothing can die after that.
2) Possibly the same movie, but I think a different old black and white movie. Some rich people in a huge house are negotiating with Death, or trying to get out of a deal with Death or something? I'm not sure but Death is in their house for the duration of the movie for some reason, and he is supposed to take someone in the house. At the end, you think he's supposed to take that person, but then he takes off his hood and cape and announces that he wants to stop being Death. I think he fell in love with a woman in the house, or maybe there was some other reason? I mostly just remember my Mom yelling "Copout!" at the TV when I saw it as a kid.