Challenge to Lassie (1949)
Challenge to Lassie (1949)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Edmund Gwenn
John Traill
Donald Crisp
'Jock' Gray
Geraldine Brooks
Susan Brown
Reginald Owen
Sergeant Davie
Alan Webb
James Brown
Ross Ford
William Traill
Henry Stephenson
Sir Charles Loring
Alan Napier
Lord Provost
Sara Allgood
Mrs. MacFarland
Edmund Breon
Magistrate
Arthur Shields
Dr. Lee
Lumsden Hare
MacFarland
Charles Irwin
Sergeant Major
Eleanor Atkinson
Novel
William Ludwig
Screenplay
Richard Thorpe
Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 31, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 16m
Content RatingG
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This Movie Is About.
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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.
The movie is based on Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson's 1912 novel Greyfriars Bobby which in turn is based on the supposedly true story of Greyfriars Bobby. Twelve years after starring in Challenge to Lassie, Crisp would star in another movie based on the novel and produced by Walt Disney titled, Greyfriars Bobby.
Set in Scotland in 1860, the film tells the story of a rough collie named Lassie whose master, Jock Gray, is killed by robbers in Edinburgh. After his death, the dog keeps a constant vigil beside her master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, which is in violation of the local dog laws. In the original novel, the title dog was a Skye Terrier named Bobby, and his owner dies from pneumonia.