Lassie Come Home

Lassie come home is a 1943 film set in England during the Depression-era that tells the story of a poor boy’s dog who was sold to a rich man and had to return home to her original owner. This movie stars Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, Elizabeth Taylor, Ben Webster, J. Pat O’Malley, Alan Napier, and Lassie. A collie male dog named Pal played Lassie.

The original novel Lassie Come Home was written by Eric Knight, and the movie was directed Fred M. Wilcox and adapted from the book by Hugo Butler. After this movie, many other movies and television series starred Lassie, the collie male dog.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_Come_Home