(S. Sylvan Simon, US 1945, 102 min., 35mm)
Gorgeously shot in Technicolor, the second in MGM’s massively successful seven-film series follows the adventures of grown-up Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford), now an RAF pilot who is shot down over Nazi-occupied Norway along with a stowaway: Laddie, the son of Joe’s beloved Rough Collie Lassie (in a remarkable dual performance, the great canine star Pal plays both mother and son). Quite a bit darker in tone than Lassie Come Home—only fitting, given the war-time setting—but still great for kids, this is one sequel that delivers all the thrills and, yes, tears of its celebrated predecessor.
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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.