Lassie Come Home
by Fred M. Wilcox, Gunther von Fritsch
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Actor: Dame May Whitty, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce, Roddy McDowallDirector: Fred M. Wilcox, Gunther von Fritsch
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Alice Dalgliesh
Writer: Buddy Adler
Writer: Eric Knight
Writer: Herbert Morgan
Writer: Hugo Butler
Writer: Joe Ansen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
Published: 2004-08-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Lassie Come Home
Movie Review: A Tear-Jerker
Summary: 5 Stars
Lassie is a classic story of a boy and his dog, but however many times it is re-made or how many variations on this story appear, Lassie Come Home is unsurpassed. The film makers do not patronize the viewers, so this movie appeals to young and old alike. For anyone who has ever loved an animal, Lassie Come Home is a perfect watch.
Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) has a beautiful purebred collie named Lassie. She loves Joe so much, she even memorized what time of day he comes home from school, and each day she waits outside his classroom to walk home with him. Unfortunately, Jpe's parents (Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty) are poor, and they cannot put food on the table for themselves, much less feed a dog. They sell her to a wealthy family whose owner plans to show Lassie in dog shows, but she has other ideas. After escaping once and returning home with Joe, the new family moves from Ireland to Scotland, but Lassie's love knows no distance and she is soon on her way back to Joe.
Based on a best-selling book, this movie takes us on a journey with Lassie as she meets both friend and foe on the trail back to the boy she loves. Sentimental for sure, but never sappy and overdone, the movie represents a time in American film history when families went to the movies together. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.
Summary of Lassie Come Home
LASSIE COME HOME - DVD MovieLassie Come Home is a classic for all the usual reasons: its timeless, universal appeal, its first-of-its-kind status, and its exceptional cinematography, direction, and performances. What makes this 1943 charmer especially fun for grownups who haven't screened it since their own preteen, pet-obsessed days, though, is a couple of cute-as-a-button cast members. An adorably over-earnest Roddy McDowall stars as Joe, the mostly hapless lad whom Lassie refuses to part with despite his down-and-out family's decision to sell her, for a paltry 15 guineas, to a wealthy duke; and Elizabeth Taylor, already stunning at around age 10, surrenders a sweet if mawkish performance as Priscilla, the Duke's tenderhearted granddaughter, who lends a hand in Lassie's escape from her family's unkind kennel master and winks her way into winning the fearless pup a permanent place at her true master's side. Beyond that, it's no mystery why generations of dog-loving audiences have marveled at the precocious collie's career--Lassie is a great actor. She so convincingly digs impossible trenches, leaps towering fences, swims raging rivers, knocks out bad guys, and betrays the essence of brokenheartedness with her bedraggled coat and woebegone expressions that it's sometimes hard to shake the suspicion that she's really an incredibly limber person in a cute dog suit. All told, Lassie Come Home delivers a lot to love, not the least of which is the deeply dramatic score--quirky sounding to the modern ear--which returns audiences to simpler, irony-free times, as does the movie's message of loyalty at all costs. --Tammy La Gorce
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