Lassie come home [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Samuel Marx ; screenplay by Hugo Butler ; directed by Fred M. Wilcox.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 65724 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Summary language: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: [United States] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004]Description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790775514
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | FAMILY Lassie c | Available | 33111004342263 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have actually been well-disguised males. A magnificent animal named Pal was the screen's first Lassie in 1943's Lassie Come Home. Set in Yorkshire during the first World War, the film gets under way when the poverty-stricken parents (Donald Crisp, Elsa Lanchester) of young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) are forced to sell his beloved Lassie. While her new master, the duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), is pleasant enough, Lassie prefers the company of Joe and repeatedly escapes. Even when cared for by the duke's affectionate granddaughter, Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor), Lassie insists upon heading back to her original home. This time, however, the trip is much longer, and Lassie must depend upon the kindness of strangers, notably farmers Dally (Dame May Whitty) and Dan'l Fadden (Ben Webster) and handyman Rowlie (Edmund Gwenn). Based on the novel by Eric Knight (originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post), Lassie Come Home was released quite some time after Knight's death. Like all the Lassie sequels turned out by MGM between 1943 and 1951, Lassie Come Home was lensed in Technicolor. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
Special features: vintage short FALA; Lassie movie trailer gallery.
Title from container.
Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty.
The collie is sold and makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
MPAA rating: G.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
English or French dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.