Details

Release year: 1943

Storyline

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.

Top credits

Directors

Fred M. Wilcox

Writers

Cast

Roddy McDowall — Joe Carraclough
Donald Crisp — Sam Carraclough
May Whitty — Dally
Edmund Gwenn — Rowlie

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• 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. In any case, production was halted. Producer Samuel Marx was walking the 600 block of North Foothill Road in Beverly Hills doing his nightly patrol as an air raid warden when he met Francis Taylor, who patrolled the 700 block. Knowing he and Sara Taylor wanted to get their daughter into the movies, he asked him to bring Elizabeth to the studio. There she was introduced to Lassie and the production resumed.

• Pal, who played Lassie, earned a salary of $250 per week, while young Elizabeth Taylor was paid $100 per week.

• The writer of the story, Eric Knight, was killed in a plane crash while serving USA in WWII. He served in the Special Services and wrote 2 of the series "Why We Fight" for Frank Capra before his death in Suriname. His died before this movie was released, but he had visited set during filming.