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Challenge to Lassie (1949)
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31 October 1949 (USA) morePlot:
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
An Evil, Evil Film moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Edmund Gwenn | ... | John Traill |
| Donald Crisp | ... | 'Jock' Gray |
| Geraldine Brooks | ... | Susan Brown |
| Reginald Owen | ... | Sergeant Davie |
| Alan Webb | ... | James Brown |
| Ross Ford | ... | William Traill |
| Henry Stephenson | ... | Sir Charles Loring |
| Alan Napier | ... | Lord Provost |
| Sara Allgood | ... | Mrs. MacFarland |
| Edmund Breon | ... | Magistrate |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Dr. Lee |
| Lumsden Hare | ... | MacFarland |
| Charles Irwin | ... | Sergeant Major |
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| Pal | ... | Lassie |
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Filming Locations:
Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland, UKFun Stuff
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This story is based loosely on that of "Greyfriars Bobby", which has appeared in several film versions. moreFAQ
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Long before Mel Gibson and his Braveheart chums erroneously and treacherously painted Robert the Bruce as a traitor to the people he served so heroically, Hollywood was trampling all over the memory of that other great Scottish hero, Greyfriar's Bobby. Challenge to Lassie removes the faithful terrier, replacing him with some big shot American sheepdog, surrounded by 'actors' whose Scottish accents are so bad you wonder if they've given up half way through, tried an Irish one, realised they're not much cop at that either and tried Scottish again to no avail.
Hopefully Braveheart will pay the same price for attempting to alter Scotland's proud history and be as anonymous in forty odd years as Challenge to Lassie is now.
An evil, evil film.