Lassie Come Home (1943)

Director:

Fred M. Wilcox

Writers:

Hugo Butler (screenplay)
Eric Knight (novel)

Release Date:

December 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Family

Tagline:

A Thrilling Saga Of Courage And Loyalty !

Plot:

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Lassie | Scotland | Duke | Yorkshire

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins

Cast

Roddy McDowall	...	Joe Carraclough
Donald Crisp	...	Sam Carraclough
Dame May Whitty	...	Dally
Edmund Gwenn	...	Rowlie
Nigel Bruce	...	Duke of Rudling
Elsa Lanchester	...	Mrs. Carraclough
Elizabeth Taylor	...	Priscilla
Ben Webster	...	Dan'l Fadden
J. Pat O'Malley	...	Hynes (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
Alan Napier	...	Jock
Arthur Shields	...	Andrew
John Rogers	...	Snickers
Alec Craig	...	Buckles
Pal	...	Lassie (as Lassie)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
May Beatty	...	Heavy Woman (uncredited)
George Broughton	...	Allen (uncredited)
Sherlee Collier	...	Little Girl (uncredited)
Howard Davies	...	Cobbler (uncredited)
Hugh Harrison	...	Schoolteacher on Stairway (uncredited)
Charles Irwin	...	Tom (uncredited)
Nelson Leigh	...	Joe's Teacher (uncredited)
Janet Littlewood	...	Little Girl (uncredited)
Roy Parry	...	A.J. Halstead - Butcher (uncredited)
John Power	...	Miner (uncredited)

Directed by
Fred M. Wilcox

Writing credits
Hugo Butler		(screenplay)
Eric Knight		(novel)

Produced by
Samuel Marx	....	producer
Harry Rapf	....	executive producer (uncredited)
Dore Schary	....	producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Daniele Amfitheatrof

Cinematography by
Leonard Smith		(director of photography)
Charles P. Boyle		(director of photography) (uncredited)

Film Editing by
Ben Lewis

Art Direction by
Cedric Gibbons

Set Decoration by
Edwin B. Willis

Makeup Department
Jack Dawn	....	makeup creator

Production Management
Charles J. Hunt	....	unit manager (uncredited)
George Yohalem	....	unit manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tom Andre	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Alfred Raboch	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Mildred Griffiths	....	associate set decorator
Paul Groesse	....	associate art director

Sound Department
Douglas Shearer	....	recording director

Special Effects by
Warren Newcombe	....	special effects

Stunts
Larry Kert	....	stunts: Roddy McDowall (uncredited)

Music Department
Wally Heglin	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Paul Marquardt	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Leonid Raab	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Eric Zeisl	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Other crew
Henri Jaffa	....	associate Technicolor color director
Natalie Kalmus	....	Technicolor color director
Frank Inn	....	dog trainer (uncredited)
Rudd Weatherwax	....	dog trainer: "Lassie" (uncredited)

Thanks
Eric Knight	....	with reverence and pride, we dedicate this picturization of his best-loved story to (as the late Major Eric Knight)

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (presents)
• Loew's (produced by) (as Loew's Incorporated)

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1943) (USA) (theatrical) (as Metro Goldwyn Mayer)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1950) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1990) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD) (3 film set)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (triple feature with "Son of Lassie" and "Courage of Lassie")
• Central Motion Picture Exchange (1951) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (Canada) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (Canada) (DVD) (3 film set)
• Warner Home Vídeo (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Turner Entertainment  VHS package design

Also Known As:

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:S | Norway:A | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #8995) | USA:G (re-rating) (1971) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Canada:G (video rating) | Netherlands:6 (2008) | West Germany:6 (f) | Australia:G | UK:U | USA:TV-G

Filming Locations:

Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The number of purebred collies registered in the United States in the late 1940s increased from 3,000 to 18,400, probably because of the Lassie series of films.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In an early scene in the movie, the shadows are the same when Joe is going to school in the morning as when he's coming home that afternoon.

Quotes:

Dally:I know something about this dog. She's going somewhere - she's on her way.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Paco Come Home" (1999)

Soundtrack:

America the Beautiful

Even the terminator would cry at the end of this one.

I'm not going to say much about this movie...because it is, of course, very good...BUT the end is what i want to talk about. I'm a guy so it humbles me a little to make the following comment: It makes you so happy to see that Lassie has overcome the most impossible odds just to meet Joe at school, Ya just start bawling like a lil baby! they will be some of the happiest tears you'll ever cry. 9 out of 10 just because the end makes up for any downfalls the movie might have!(not that it has many)