Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

weezeralfalfa Probably, the first of the stories about a dog that overcomes various obstacles to get back to what it considers home from hundreds of miles away. Obviously, MGM put a lot of thought and money into this production, which hopefully helped to cheer up a war-weary world. But, it doesn't take a world war to enjoy reruns of this classic., which spearheaded a series of Hollywood and TV sequels. Filmed in vibrant Technicolor, in various California locations, as well as Washington state, which substituted for the supposed Scotland and Yorkshire , England. ......The cast was perfectly selected, with Pal, a male collie, playing the central role of Lassie. Donald Crisp was always perfect for this type of role. I remember him in a rather similar role in "How Green Was my Valley". Else Lanchester plays his long-suffering wife, trying to feed her family, which included 14y.O. Roddy McDowell and Lassie, on virtually no income, as Crisp had been laid off as a coal miner. They finally came to the point where they had to sell Lassie, as their only significant asset. She was sold to the kindly Duke of Rudling, played by the charismatic Negel Bruce, who wants this beautiful dog as a show dog. However, she doesn't like the kennel keeper, Hynes(J. Pat O'Malley), who keeps her on a chain both inside her cage and outside on walks. She needs lots of time to be free to wander around and play. So, eventually, she gets free of Hynes and runs for the front gate. 11y.o. Elizabeth Taylor recognized that she was homesick, so opened the gate enough to let Lassie escape. She's starting her hundreds of miles odyssey from Scotland to Yorkshire. negotiating various forests, glens, shorelines and pastures. She is nearly killed by a rifle shot by a shepard(Alan Napier, and Arthur Shields), who suspected her of being a sheep killer. This is followed by a fight with their ferocious guard dog. Not injured seriously enough to sideline her, she continues onward, across a swollen river, laying exhausted on the other bank. A kindly elderly couple(played by Dame May Whitty and Ben Webster) take her in and nurse her back to health. But, eventually it's clear she has an agenda, and wants to be let free........ When she's nearly exhausted again, she meets a kindly old tinker(Edmund Gwenn) and his little dog Toots, out in a forest. Initially afraid, she soon accepts the food offered, and becomes friendly with Toots. But a crisis happens when a pair of thieves accost the tinker. Lassie and Toots help in beating them off, but Toots is killed. The tinker would like Lassie to take Toot's place, but recognizes that she wants her freedom. Lassie's last major hurdle is to outrun a pair of dog catchers. She has to jump out a second story window, and badly sprains or breaks a leg on landing, so that she has to limp the rest of the way home. You may rest assured that that things work out for Lassie, and between the Duke and Crisp, who part as friends.

adamlee19 This was one off the first films I ever saw as a child and even today at 31 I still have much love for this film. The ending even now gets me really emotional. I know its only a film but Dogs are really loyal even in real life. Its a shame Man ain't as loyal. A brilliant film where everyone should love.

Scoval71 A classic. A dear story of a impoverished English family who has to sell their prized possession, a collie dog named Lassie, to make ends meet. I never tire of seeing this movie whenever it plays, even though I own the DVD. Make sure to get out a handkerchief or some tissues for, surely, you will be tearful, if not totally slobbering. It is that touching and endearing. It is without time constraints, veneer or facade. This was the first Lassie movie and showcases the first Lassie. Now, in 2012, as I write this review, there is Lassie 10, a direct descendant of the original brilliant collie. Again, the collie escapes to travel many miles from Scotland to England to reunite with his master. He endures great hardships on his journey. The movie is lustrous, brilliant, and excellently acted with young ELizabeth Taylor. Just a lovely classic movie, as modern as it is old fashioned, yet not old fashioned at all. I enjoyed the speech patterns and scenery. A movie that is for any age, but remember, get out the tissues. What an endearing movie.

bkoganbing I'm sure that when MGM was filming Lassie Come Home they were not aware they would be setting up the foundation of a collie franchise. The film obviously was meant to be a B picture filler as none of MGM's big box office names were used. But the story of the loyal collie dog who traveled over 1000 miles from Scotland to Yorkshire to return to his young master struck a nostalgic chord in the English speaking world.What MGM did do for this film was use location footage, most likely in California and film it in Technicolor. Doing that made the film a classic and wanted by today's market which disdains black and white.Two young future stars Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor are in this as children and they are an appealing pair. For the rest of the cast MGM made liberal use of the English colony in Hollywood with Elsa Lanchester, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Gwenn, Alan Napier, Arthur Shields, and Dame May Witty and her husband Ben Webster. In fact if you take away the two child stars, this film may just have the oldest average age of any film cast around.Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall formed a lifetime friendship from this film. She also became very attached to Donald Crisp who became a father figure for her until his death in 1974. Crisp and McDowall are reunited as father and son as they were in How Green Was My Valley.The plot is a simple one. Because he's out of work and needs the money for food on the table, Donald Crisp sells the pure bred collie to Lord Nigel Bruce who takes him from Yorkshire to Scotland. But Lassie ain't having this and escapes and makes the journey to what she considers home. The story is about her adventures on the way.After over 60 years Lassie is still appealing to children of all ages everywhere.