Lassie Come Home (1/10) Movie CLIP - Morning Routine (1943) HD

Lassie Come Home movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Like every morning, Lassie wakes Joe (Roddy McDowall) up and escorts him to school. FILM DESCRIPTION: Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who’ve played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have actually been well-disguised males. A magnificent animal named Pal was the screen’s first Lassie in 1943’s Lassie Come Home. Set in Yorkshire during the first World War, the film gets under way when the poverty-stricken parents (Donald Crisp, Elsa Lanchester) of young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) are forced to sell his beloved Lassie. While her new master, the duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), is pleasant enough, Lassie prefers the company of Joe and repeatedly escapes. Even when cared for by the duke’s affectionate granddaughter, Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor), Lassie insists upon heading back to her original home. This time, how