Lassie Come Home
September 25 / 7:30 pm & September 27 / 2:00 pm
Starring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, & May Whitty
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.
Pal, who played Lassie, earned a salary of $250 per week, while young Elizabeth Taylor was paid $100 per week.
Pal retired at the age of five, after which, nearly all subsequent Lassie movies used his direct descendants. [The dogs who played Lassie for the first half of season 2 of Lassie (1997) and Lassie (2005) were not.]
Though Lassie is supposed to be female, this and all subsequent Lassie movies used male dogs to play her, supposedly because males are easier to train.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor replaced Maria Flynn in the role of Priscilla. Some sources say Flynn was afraid of the dog on the set; others say that she grew taller than Roddy McDowall or that the strong Technicolor lighting caused her eyes to water.
Lassie Come Home
Friday, September 25, 7:30PM
Sunday, September 27, 2:00PM
1943 | Not Rated| 1 Hr. 29 Min.