THE STORY OF LASSIE (BIO 2016)

Hosted by June Lockhart. The Story of Lassie Includes clips from Lassie MGM feature films as well as from Lassie’s TV shows, and interviews with trainer Robert Weatherwax; actors Roddy McDowall, Tommy Rettig, Jon Provost, Margaret O’Brien, Janet Leigh, director Jack Lively and others.

For 75 years, she has represented all that is good about the enduring bonds between human beings and their dogs. She first leaped to stardom in the 1943 MGM film, Lassie Come Home. At a time when families, still stunned from the Depression, were then torn apart by World War II, the story of a dog who fights every obstacle to return hundreds of miles to her young master moved audiences to tears and established Lassie as an American icon. Lassie made seven MGM films. And when family films began to leave the big screen there were new horizons… first on radio and then on television.

This bio piece is a must for all Lassie aficionados.

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Number of DVDs: 1

Quality: 10/10

Running Time: 60 min

Ratio: Fullscreen 1.33:1

NOTES: This is a fan-made DVD set. Not a studio release. DVD come in white sleeves with no art work. Screenshots are from the actual DVD.