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.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Roddy McDowall | ... | Joe Carraclough | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Sam Carraclough | |
| May Whitty | ... | Dally (as Dame May Whitty) | |
| Edmund Gwenn | ... | Rowlie | |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Duke of Rudling | |
| Elsa Lanchester | ... | Mrs. Carraclough | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Priscilla | |
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Ben Webster | ... | Dan'l Fadden |
| J. Pat O'Malley | ... | Hynes (as J. Patrick O'Malley) | |
| Alan Napier | ... | Jock | |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Andrew | |
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| Alec Craig | ... | Buckles | |
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Pal | ... | Lassie (as Lassie) |
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Hard times came for Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog to the rich Duke of Rudling. However, Lassie, the dog, is unwilling to leave the young Carraclough boy and sets out on the long and dangerous journey in order to rejoin him. Written by Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
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I'm sure that when MGM was filming Lassie Come Home they were not aware they would be setting up the foundation of a collie franchise. The film obviously was meant to be a B picture filler as none of MGM's big box office names were used. But the story of the loyal collie dog who traveled over 1000 miles from Scotland to Yorkshire to return to his young master struck a nostalgic chord in the English speaking world.
What MGM did do for this film was use location footage, most likely in California and film it in Technicolor. Doing that made the film a classic and wanted by today's market which disdains black and white.
Two young future stars Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor are in this as children and they are an appealing pair. For the rest of the cast MGM made liberal use of the English colony in Hollywood with Elsa Lanchester, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Gwenn, Alan Napier, Arthur Shields, and Dame May Witty and her husband Ben Webster. In fact if you take away the two child stars, this film may just have the oldest average age of any film cast around.
Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall formed a lifetime friendship from this film. She also became very attached to Donald Crisp who became a father figure for her until his death in 1974. Crisp and McDowall are reunited as father and son as they were in How Green Was My Valley.
The plot is a simple one. Because he's out of work and needs the money for food on the table, Donald Crisp sells the pure bred collie to Lord Nigel Bruce who takes him from Yorkshire to Scotland. But Lassie ain't having this and escapes and makes the journey to what she considers home. The story is about her adventures on the way.
After over 60 years Lassie is still appealing to children of all ages everywhere.