Film· 1943· Drama

Lassie Come Home

by Fred M. Wilcox

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Lassie Come Home

Set in the Lassie universe.

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home. Lassie Come Home is a 1943 American, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor drama 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. 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".