Challenge to Lassie

1949
U
1h 16m

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6.2/10

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Geraldine Brooks, Donald Crisp, Ross Ford, Edmund Gwenn, and Pal in Challenge to Lassie (1949)

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

688

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.

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

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An Evil, Evil Film

Long before Mel Gibson and his Braveheart chums erroneously and treacherously painted Robert the Bruce as a traitor to the people he served so heroically, Hollywood was trampling all over the memory of that other great Scottish hero, Greyfriar's Bobby. Challenge to Lassie removes the faithful terrier, replacing him with some big shot American sheepdog, surrounded by 'actors' whose Scottish accents are so bad you wonder if they've given up half way through, tried an Irish one, realised they're not much cop at that either and tried Scottish again to no avail.

Hopefully Braveheart will pay the same price for attempting to alter Scotland's proud history and be as anonymous in forty odd years as Challenge to Lassie is now.

An evil, evil film.