Lassie Come Home
- Roddy McDowall: Joe Carraclough
- Donald Crisp: Sam Carraclough
- Elsa Lanchester: Woman Carraclough
- Elizabeth Taylor: Priscilla
- Nigel Bruce: Duke of Rudling
- Ben Webster: Bauer Dan'l Fadden
- Dame May Whitty: peasant woman Dally
- Edmund Gwenn: Gypsy Rowlie
- J. Pat O'Malley: Hynes
- Alan Napier: Jock
- Arthur Shields: Andrew
- John Rogers: Snickers
- Alec Craig: Buckles
- George Broughton: Allen
- Sherlee Collier: Little girl
- Howard Davies: Schuster
- Roy Parry: Butcher A. J. Halstead
- John Power: miners
Homesickness is an American feature film from the year 1943. It is the first feature film with the film Collie Lassie as the main character.
The film is based on a literary work of the British- American writer Eric Knight. On December 17, 1938 whose short story Lassie Come Home was published in the Saturday Evening Post; 1940, the publication of the substance as a novel.
In 2005, the film was titled Lassie returns remade.
Action
The collie Lassie is the best friend of the living in the English Yorkshire boy Joe. Every day brings Lassie the boy by four clock in the afternoon from school. Since the family is extremely poor, sell Joe's parents Lassie one day to the Duke of Rudling, his granddaughter Priscilla is pleased with the collie. But Lassie runs away and returns to the family, but is brought back by an assistant of the Duke. When Lassie again uproots the Duke and Joe wants to run away with her, his father brings the dog back one more time. Joe's mother shows up happy that Lassie out of the house is.
One day tears Lassie for a walk with the dog warden of the Duke of again; it starts a lengthy flight through wind and weather, during which they almost victims of hunters is that they keep for a poaching dog. As the exhausted Lassie reaches a farm, she is nursed for by the neighbors. When the farmer's wife noticed that Lassie every day at four clock is restless, can draw the couple Lassie. Lassie gets to know the gypsy Rowlie, who takes her a piece on his journey on which she defends him one day from thieves. Later in her trip, she manages to escape two dog catchers.
Exhausted versa Lassie from the long journey back home. The family is still suffering hardship. Joe's mother, however, is now relieved that Lassie is back because her son Joe was very sad without them. As the family gets a visit from Duke. This provides Joe's father work as a caretaker for his dog to. When he sees Lassie, he pretends it unrecognizable. As there will be four clock, Lassie breaks, despite their exhaustion, as usual, to pick up her friend Joe from school.
Joe and Priscilla become friends and spend their time together with Lassie and their offspring.
Background
Films such as homesickness were once regarded as the ideal distraction entertainment in the war-torn United States. For the selection of the right Collie a large casting was held on the grounds of the MGM studios, on the show had their dogs to a jury, the Breeders.
Homesickness was Elizabeth Taylor's second film and the first film in which she participated for Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer. MGM then gave her one of the then industry-standard seven-year studio contract. Taylor had only four scenes in the film and is a total of less than 10 minutes to be seen. The real protagonist of the film is the dog.
For the role of Priscilla, the studio had initially planned Maria Flynn, the ( in September 1942), however, proved after the start of filming to be too large, ie, as a head taller than her screen partner Roddy McDowall. A girl who was taller than a boy, the producers did not expect the public at this time, so Taylor got the role.
Awards
Reviews
" First film a six-part series about the Collie dog Lassie (1943-1951), who later gained as the star of a TV series worldwide fame. Fun for young and old. "