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Driftwood **** (1947, Natalie Wood, Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Jerome Cowan, H B Warner, Margaret Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 12,101

The nine-year-old Natalie Wood gives a super show of winning acting in this thoroughly enjoyable homespun drama.  Producer-director Allan Dwan’s prestige 1947 drama Driftwood stars Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, and Natalie […]

May, 06

Challenge to Lassie *** (1949, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 5141

Director Richard Thorpe’s interesting 1949 entry in the immensely popular Lassie series stars Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks and Reginald Owen. It stands out from the rest of the series as a version of […]

Mar, 12

Son of Lassie *** (1945, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn, Leon Ames, Fay Helm, Nils Asther, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4647

Director S Sylvan Simon’s sentimental but pleasing 1945 children’s adventure finds its beating heart in Laddie, the son of Lassie, who joins Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford) as a stowaway in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during […]

Nov, 13

Lassie Come Home **** (1943, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Elsa Lanchester, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4646

Director Fred M Wilcox’s adorable 1943 MGM children’s movie is the original and the sweetest of the film shaggy-dog stories featuring the lovable collie Lassie (played by male dog Pal). In Hugo Butler’s screenplay, based on Eric […]

Nov, 13

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