Challenge to Lassie

1949
G
1h 16m

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6.2/10

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When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

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When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

Director
- Richard Thorpe
Writers
- William Ludwig
- Eleanor Atkinson
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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

687

YOUR RATING

Director
- Richard Thorpe
Writers
- William Ludwig
- Eleanor Atkinson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This story is based loosely on that of "Greyfriars Bobby", which has appeared in several film versions.

Goofs
When Lassie is crawling out of the river, the POV is from the river and the river is running from left to right. When she comes over the bank, the POV is toward the river, the water is running from left to right.

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Featured in Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)

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5/10

Greyfriars Lassie

Edmund Gwenn and Donald Crisp join Lassie the Collie once more after having been teamed in the otherwise-unrelated "The Hills Of Home" from 1948. This heart-tugging, family-oriented saga, based on the book "Greyfriars Bobby" by Eleanor Atkinson, involves stray, untagged Lassie with a crusty old coot who can't figure out why the dog has a confounding need to get into the Greyfriars Churchyard, where animals are forbidden. Geraldine Brooks is the proverbial pretty girl/Elizabeth Taylor substitute, Kathryn Beaumont has an uncredited bit as a neighborhood child, Gwenn is his usual spunky self, yet the whole show belongs to Lassie. Whether crossing a wide river, digging her way out of a barn, climbing out a window, or outwitting the hysterical humans, the dog is shown to a star's advantage. Story remade by Disney in 1960 (under the original title and with a Skye terrier in the lead). ** from ****