TCM Greatest Classic Films: Lassie (DVD)

Lassie Come Home (1943): In this endearing family classic, a collie makes many friends as it journeys from Scotland to Yorkshire to return to its young master in Lassie Come Home. Son of Lassie (1945): Peter Lawford and June Lockhart star as the adults who, as children, shared adventures with a dog named Lassie--but who now fight Nazis with the help of the Son of Lassie. World War II. Laddie, Lassie's pup, sneaks aboard a bombing mission over German-occupied Norway. The plane is shot down, and dog and master parachute behind enemy lines. Now, when Joe (Lawford) is injured on landing, it's up to Laddie to guide his master to safety. The Courage of Lassie (1946): Academy Award-winner Elizabeth Taylor stars in this touching family drama about a young girl who rehabilitates an Army's shell-shocked collie. Hills of Home (1948): Lassie movie involving an elderly doctor in a Scottish village who convinces a town father to get his son to study medicine and thus guarantee a new local doctor for the locality.

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