The Sun Comes Up

1949
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1h 33m

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6.4/10

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Claude Jarman Jr., Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, and Pal in The Sun Comes Up (1949)

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Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her lat... Read allSet in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her late son. Punctuated with song-filled interludes.Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her late son. Punctuated with song-filled interludes.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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Jeanette MacDonald

Helen Lorfield Winter

Lloyd Nolan

Thomas I. Chandler

Claude Jarman Jr.

Jerry

Lewis Stone

Arthur Norton

Percy Kilbride

Mr. Willie B. Williegood

Nicholas Joy

Victor Alvord

Margaret Hamilton

Mrs. Golightly

Hope Landin

Mrs. Pope

Esther Somers

Susan - the maid

Pal

Lassie
(as Lassie)

Ed Agresti

Musician
(uncredited)

Jessie Arnold

Townswoman at Fire
(uncredited)

Charles Bates

Orphan
(uncredited)

John Beck

Bit Part
(uncredited)

Bobby Beyers

Orphan
(uncredited)

Barbara Billingsley

Nurse
(uncredited)

Paul E. Burns

Dr. Sample
(uncredited)

John Butler

Hotel Attendant
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The Sun Comes Up (1949) is mainly based on the 1936 short story "A Mother in Mannville" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. According to the University of South Carolina Libraries description of Rawlings' works, in 1946 MGM asked Rawlings to do a story that could star Lassie with Claude Jarman Jr.. Rawlings started with her 1936 short story "A Mother in Mannville." MGM bought the rights to Rawlings' unpublished story "A Family for Jock," re-titled it "Mountain Prelude," and sold the literary rights to The Saturday Evening Post. The story appeared The Post as a six-part serial during April 26 to May 31, 1947. But it has never been published in novel form.

Goofs
When Jerry finally decides to go play with Lassie, we can hear someone off-screen give Lassie a command. Right after Jerry says,"Let's have fun now," and hugs Lassie, a man's voice clearly speaks a word off-camera, and Lassie looks in that direction before running off with the boy.

Connections
Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Jeanette MacDonald

Soundtracks
Un Bel Di
(uncredited)
from "Madama Butterfly"
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung by Jeanette MacDonald

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7/10

Another sweet Lassie flick

This film was Jeanette MacDonald's last film. And, considering it's a nice little family movie, she went out in style.

Helen is distraught. Her son has just died and she has decided to retreat to the countryside to try to forget. This is made tougher because the boy's dog refuses to leave her and she reluctantly takes the dog along with her. Through the course of the movie, Helen becomes friends with an orphan boy, Jerry (Claude Jarmin Jr.) and the woman who wants to be alone and forget soon learns to live again.

This film is less a Lassie film than most. Sure, the dog's important to the story...but the humans are more important and he's more a supporting player. Overall, very engaging and a nice story that you are sure to enjoy....and made with the usual MGM style and flair.