(Fred M. Wilcox, US 1943, 89 min., 35mm)
The ultimate boy-and-his-dog movie—and the first in the warmest, fuzziest film franchise of all time—stars young Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough, an impoverished Yorkshire lad who must sell off his best friend, a Rough Collie named Lassie (beautifully played by legendary canine star Pal), when his family falls upon hard times. Lassie’s aristocratic new owner (Nigel Bruce) ships Lassie off to Scotland, where his granddaughter (a 10-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, in her second film) helps a homesick Lassie plot her escape.
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Adventures of Lassie In her final film, Jeanette MacDonald plays Helen Lorfield Winter, a widowed concert singer who loses her son in an accident, but who escapes embitterment when she encounters a charming orphan boy and his trusty canine companion, Lassie.