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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
G, 1 hr. 29 min.
Oct 7, 1943 Wide
Aug 24, 2004
MGM
All Critics (17) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (2) | DVD (6)
Lassie celebrates nothing more profound than the simple and timeworn relationship of a boy and a dog. It dramatizes the uncomplicated goodness of an animal in a complicated human world.
Top CriticLassie emerges as nice entertainment enhanced by color photography and good scenic shots.
A thorough delight.
The classic 1943 canine weepie about a collie who crosses most of Britain to return to the little boy who loves her.
This was understandably inspiring to wartime audiences and actually still holds up as a heartwarming story with a very decent cast.
This film is a fairly well-balanced effort, and if you're in the mood for an evening of obvious sentiment, this boy-and-his-dog film works quite well.
Barkin' good moral-rich classic. But violent, too.
MGM tear jerker supreme for dog and child fans.
Nobody made this heart-warming fluff better than MGM.
It's the classic shaggy dog story that began it all.
As Old Yeller is the classic story of a boy and his dog, Lassie Come Home is the classic story of a dog and her boy.
Lassie Come Home gives the screen's first dog star, Rin-Tin-Tin, a run for his money, mostly thanks to its rich Technicolor cinematography and its top-shelf cast.
Sentimental slush.
One of those rare and precious films that are to be enjoyed by all generations.
Still good family entertainment today.
Lassie Come Home? No, Lassie please leave! That's the real problem in this movie, Lassie wont stay away. The family is too poor to keep the dog, so they sell it, but it keeps coming back home. This really got on my nerves, not only that , but the scenes with Lassie fighting bears in the woods so he could get back
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
If you don't like this movie you better see the wizard about a heart.
March 22, 2008Super Reviewer
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