Thursday 22 December 2022

Hills of Home aka Master of Lassie (1948 Fred M. Wilcox)

Nice faded old Technicolor film, set in Scotland (Sonora Pass, California) about the village doctor, Edmund Gwenn, who is tricked into taking a water-phobic dog as a companion. He has his eye on a young man (Tom Drake) to take over from him - has to contend with stubborn father Rhys Williams to convince him. The love interest there is a young Janet Leigh (about 21). With Donald Crisp, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breon, Alan Napier, Eileen Erskine and of course Pal, who is as usual incredible when teetering along a thin bridge-edge or battling the freezing water (in the studio, we hope).

Written by William Ludwig and Ian Maclaren. Photographed by Charles Edgar Schoenbaum and scored by Herbert Stothart; edited by Ralph Winters.




The "Aahh" shot



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