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Courage of Lassie *** (1946, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake, Selena Royle, George Cleveland, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 4648

Director Fred M Wilcox’s 1946 children’s adventure is the unrelated third of seven MGM films featuring its canine star called Lassie, following Lassie Come Home (1943) and Son of Lassie (1945). Confusing a whole generation of kids, […]

Nov, 13

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 4,647  

June Lockhart (June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025) plays the key role of the adult Priscilla in MGM’s 1945 American Technicolor film Son of Lassie. Director S Sylvan Simon’s sentimental but pleasing 1945 children’s American […]

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

White Dog **** (1982, Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody, Marshall Thompson, Paul Bartel, Dick Miller, Parley Baer, Samuel Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 4497

Esteemed cult writer director Samuel Fuller delivers an uncomfortable but rivetingly intriguing 1982 thriller, in which Kristy McNichol stars as Julie Sawyer, an actress who unwittingly takes in a white German Shepherd dog trained to […]

Oct, 20

Hunt for the Wilderpeople **** (2016, Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata) – Movie Review

Julian Dennison and Sam Neill have great rapport as a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush, prompting a national manhunt. Defiant young city kid Ricky Baker and cantankerous […]

Oct, 17

Bolt **** (2008, voices John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Susie Essman, Mark Walton) – Classic Movie Review 4417

Oscar-nominated as 2009 Best Animated Feature Film of the Year, this delightful Disney/Pixar animated comedy adventure stars the voice of John Travolta as Bolt, an American white shepherd dog. Bolt is the ordinary, everyday canine […]

Sep, 26

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey *** (1993, Robert Hayes, Kim Griest, Jean Smart, voices Michael J Fox, Sally Field, Don Ameche) – Classic Movie Review 4351

Walt Disney Pictures’s sweet, amusing and engrossing 1993 family movie remake of its 1963 wildlife hit The Incredible Journey re-tells the tale of a trio of pets, two dogs and a cat, trekking across mountains, […]

Sep, 12

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