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Challenge to Lassie is an American drama directed by Richard Thorpe in Technicolor and released October 31, 1949, by MGM Studios. It was the fifth feature film starring the original Lassie, a collie named Pal, and the fourth and final Lassie film starring Donald Crisp.
Challenge to Lassie: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen. When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
- (671)
- Drama, Family
- Richard Thorpe
- 1949-10-31
In an Edinburgh, Scotland courthouse, in the year 1860, an appeals court trial is underway to determine the fate of a collie named Lassie. As John Traill, the dog's master, pleads his case before the judge, he recalls the time, one year earlier, when he first met Lassie: One day, during an Edinburgh street market fair, John's friend, Jock Gray, ...
- Richard Thorpe, Al Jennings
- Edmund Gwenn
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- Richard Thorpe
- 76 min
- 10
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- (10)
- Richard Thorpe
- G
- Edmund Gwenn
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
Jock Gray (Donald Crisp) stumbles upon an ownerless puppy named Lassie and decides to raise the youthful canine as his own. They live happily together until one day Jock is robbed and killed...
- Drama
