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For the original Eric Knight novel, see Lassie Come-Home. For the TV
movie, see Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.

Lassie Come Home

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Screenplay by Hugo Butler
Based on Lassie Come-Home
by Eric Knight
Produced by Samuel Marx
Dore Schary
Starring Roddy McDowall
Donald Crisp
Dame May Whitty
Edmund Gwenn
Nigel Bruce
Elsa Lanchester
Lassie
Cinematography Leonard Smith
Edited by Ben Lewis
Music by Daniele Amfitheatrof
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Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Nigel Bruce
Elsa Lanchester
Lassie
Cinematography Leonard Smith
Edited by Ben Lewis
Music by Daniele Amfitheatrof
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date October 7, 1943
Running time 89/90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $666,000[1]
Box office $4,517,000[2][1]
Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature
film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor Pal, in a story about the
profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough
collie, Lassie.[3] The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a
screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel Lassie Come-
Home by Eric Knight. The film was the first in a series of seven MGM
films starring "Lassie."

The original film saw a sequel, Son of Lassie in 1945 with five other films
following at intervals through the 1940s. A British remake of the 1943
movie was released in 2005 as Lassie to moderate success. The film has
been released to VHS and DVD.

In 1993, Lassie Come Home was included in the annual selection of 25

motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of
Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically
significant" and recommended for preservation.[4][5]
Contents

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Plot[edit]
Set in Depression-era Yorkshire, England, Mr and Mrs Carraclough are
hit by hard times and forced to sell their collie, Lassie, to the rich Duke of
Rudling, who has always admired her. Young Joe Carraclough grows
despondent at the loss of his companion.

Lassie will have nothing to do with the Duke, however, and finds ways to
escape her kennels and return to Joe. The Duke finally carries Lassie to
his home hundreds of miles distant in Scotland. There, his granddaughter
Priscilla senses the dog's unhappiness and arranges her escape.

Lassie then sets off for a long trek to her Yorkshire home. She faces
many perils along the way, dog catchers and a violent storm, but also

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meets kind people who offer her aid and comfort. At the end, when Joe
has given up hope of ever seeing his dog again, the weary Lassie returns
to her favorite resting place in the schoolyard at home. There, Lassie is
joyfully reunited with the boy she loves.

Main cast[edit]
• Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough, a Yorkshire schoolboy
• Donald Crisp as Sam Carraclough, Joe's father
• Dame May Whitty as Dally, an elderly woman who aids Lassie on
her journey homeward
• Edmund Gwenn as Rowlie, a tinker who befriends Lassie
• Nigel Bruce as Duke of Rudling, grandfather to Priscilla
• Elsa Lanchester as Mrs. Carraclough, Joe's mother
• Pal as Lassie (credited as Lassie)
• Elizabeth Taylor as Priscilla, a young girl sympathetic to Lassie's
plight
• Ben Webster as Dan'l Fadden, married to Dally
• J. Patrick O'Malley as Hynes
• Alan Napier as Jock
• Arthur Shields as Andrew
• John Rogers as Snickers
• Alec Craig as Buckles
• George Broughton as Allen (uncredited)
Production[edit]
The film was shot in Washington state and Monterey, California, while the
rapids scene was shot on the San Joaquin River.[6] It also features

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scenes from the former Janss Conejo Ranch in Wildwood Regional

Park in Thousand Oaks, California. Additional photography occurred
in Big Bear Lake. [7]

During the film's production, MGM executives previewing the dailies were

said to be so moved that they ordered more scenes to be added to "this
wonderful motion picture."[8]

Some sources say that, initially, a female collie was selected for the title
role, but was replaced when the dog began to shed excessively during
shooting of the film in the summer.[9] The trainer, Rudd Weatherwax, then
substituted the male collie, Pal, in the role of "Lassie". Pal had been hired
to perform the rapids stunt and, being male, looked more impressive in
the part.[10] Still other accounts, such as a 1943 New York Times article
written while the film was in production, say that Pal was cast by director
Fred Wilcox after first being rejected, because no other dog performed
satisfactorily with the "near human attributes" he sought for the canine
title role.[11] Weatherwax would later receive all rights to the Lassie name
and trademark in lieu of back pay owed him by MGM.[12]

Music[edit]
In 2010, Film Score Monthly released the complete scores of the seven
Lassie feature films released by MGM between 1943 and 1955 as well
as Elmer Bernstein’s score for It's a Dog's Life (1955) in the CD
collection Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection, limited to
1000 copies. Due to the era when these scores were recorded, nearly
half of the music masters have been lost so the scores had to be
reconstructed and restored from the best available sources, mainly the

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Music and Effects tracks as well as monaural ¼″ tapes.[13]

The score for Lassie Come Home was composed by Daniele

Amfitheatrof.

Track listing for Lassie Come Home (Disc 1)

1. Main Title*/The Story of a Dog* – 2:23

2. Time Sense—Second Version*/Have a Good Time/Waking Up
Joe*/Lassie is Sold – 6:30
3. Lassie is Sold, Part 2 – 1:07
4. Joe is Heartbroken*/Priscilla Meets Lassie – 2:40
5. Time Sense—Second Version*/First Escape (beginning)* – 1:33
6. Hynes Arrives/Time Sense—Second Version*/Second Escape –
2:09
7. Day Dreaming – 1:30
8. Bid Her Stay*/Honest is Honest/Lassie Goes to Scotland*/Lassie in
Scotland – 4:45
9. Lassie is Chained* – 0:51
10. Hynes Walks Lassie – 0:59
11. Time Sense—Second Version*/Lassie Runs Away*/The Storm/Over
the Mountains*/The Lake & Time Sense #3/Lassie vs. Satan*/The
Dog Fight (Amfitheatrof–Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco)*/Lassie vs.
Satan, Part 2*/A Surprise for Joe*/Crossing the River* – 13:09
12. Dan and Dally*/Lassie Recovers/Joe Can’t Sleep*/Time Sense—
Second Version* – 4:40
13. Lassie is Not Happy/Time Sense—Second Version*/Goodbye, Girl*/
Meeting Palmer/Lassie Refuses Food*/Lassie Follows Palmer –

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6:28
14. Lassie Wants to Go That Way/Lassie is a Lady/Next Morning – 3:11
15. Toots Gives a Performance*/The Dogs Play*/Thousand Kronen
(Bronislau Kaper)*/Last Fight*/Toots is Dead/It’s Goodbye, Then*/
The Dog Catchers*/Out of Work/Lassie Comes Home*/Duke
Arrives* & This is No Dog of Mine*/Time Sense—Second Version*/
Lassie Finds Joe & End Title* – 23:19
Bonus tracks

1. Dog Fight (Amfitheatrof–Castelnuovo-Tedesco) – 0:44

2. The Accident – 0:44
3. Pump and Chicken House (Lennie Hayton) – 0:49
Bonus track for Lassie Come Home (Disc 4)

1. First Escape (complete)*† – 3:07

Contains Sound Effects

†Contains Dialogue

Total Time: 80:79

Reception[edit]
The movie was a big hit. According to MGM records it earned $2,613,000
in the US and Canada and $1,904,000 overseas, resulting in a profit of
$2,249,000.[1][2]

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography,

Color and later the character of Lassie received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Blvd. In 1993, Lassie Come Home was
selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by

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the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically

significant".

Bosley Crowther in The New York Times of October 8, 1943 uniformly

praised the performers and production, noting that the film "tells the story
of a boy and a dog, tells it with such poignance and simple beauty that
only the hardest heart can fail to be moved."[14]

Almost 50 years after the film's release, Parade discussed its lasting

cultural impact, quoting the Saturday Evening Post which said the film
launched Pal on "the most spectacular canine career in film
history". Lassie Come Home was also cited as a cultural icon in Jane and
Michael Stern's 1992 book, Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.[9]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

• 2003: AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:

◦ Lassie – #39 Hero[15]
• 2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
◦ Joe Carraclough: "You're my Lassie come home." –
Nominated[16]
• 2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated[17]
References to Lassie Come Home in other
media[edit]
• The 1972 Peanuts film Snoopy, Come Home is a title reference
to Lassie Come Home, and its plot is also similar to the movie's
plot.
• "Lasso Come Home", an episode of the Disney Junior series Sheriff

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Callie's Wild West, also resembles the title.

• The season 2 episode "R2 Come Home" of Star Wars: The Clone
Wars, features a very similar plot line to the film.
• Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
Home media[edit]
The film was released on VHS by MGM Home Entertainment in 1990.
The film was released on DVD by Warner Home Video and Warner
Archive Collection from 2004 onwards.

Remake[edit]
A German remake was released in 2020[18]

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:
a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library,
Center for Motion Picture Study.
2. ^ Jump up to:
a b Eyman, Scott. Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B.
Mayer, Robson, 2005, p. 355.
3. ^ Variety film review; August 18, 1943, page 10.
4. ^ "Librarian Announces National Film Registry Selections (March 7, 1994) -
Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov.
Retrieved 2020-11-18.
5. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film
Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of
Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
Retrieved 2020-11-18.
6. ^ Thomas, Tony (1990). The Films of the Forties. ISBN 0863694020.

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7. ^ "Lassie Come Home". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles,

California: American Film Institute. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
8. ^ "Lassie (History timeline)". Classic Media. 2005.
9. ^ Jump up to:
a b "Lassie a 'Lass-he'", Parade magazine, 18 October 1992, p. 22.
10. ^ Goodspeed, Diane (2006). Happy tails across New Jersey.
p. 126. ISBN 0813538483.
11. ^ "Profile of a Collie". The New York Times. February 28, 1943. p. 4.
12. ^ Collins, Ace. Lassie: A Dog's Life. Penguin Books.
13. ^ "Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection (1943–1955)". Film
Score Monthly. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
14. ^ Crowther, Bosley (October 8, 1943). "MOVIE REVIEW: Lassie Come
Home (1943): Lassie Come Home,' Drama of a Dog, at Music Hall –
'Sherlock Holmes Faces Death' Seen at the Palace". The New York Times.
p. 0.
15. ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains" (PDF). American Film Institute.
Retrieved August 20, 2019.
16. ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved August
20, 2019.
17. ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved August
20, 2019.
18. ^ "Lassie Come Home - Film Review".

External links[edit]
 Media related to Lassie Come Home at Wikimedia Commons

• Lassie Come Home at IMDb 

• Lassie Come Home at AllMovie 
• Lassie Come Home at the TCM Movie Database 

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• Lassie Come Home at the American Film Institute Catalog 

• Lassie Come Home at Rotten Tomatoes 
• Lassie Come Home at Box Office Mojo 
• Lassie Come Home essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film
Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the
National Film Registry, Bloomsbury Academic,
2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 364-366 [1]

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