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- The book author, Eric Knight, spent his childhood in Yorkshire, where the story is based as well as a beginning and the end of the plot.
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Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie.
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Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie's trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves. Knight had introduced the reading public to the canine character of Lassie in a magazine story published on 17 December 1938, in The Saturday Evening Post , a story which he later expanded to the novel and ...
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- 1940
The true tale of Lassie Hollywood's most famous dog was in fact the brainchild of an Englishman, Eric Knight. Now she is back on this side of the Atlantic to film a remake of the canine classic.
The fictional character of Lassie was created by English author Eric Knight in Lassie Come-Home, first published as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and later as a full-length novel in 1940.
Silverton Bobbie the Wonder Dog is the real-life Lassie Come-Home. As the events of his remarkable journey occurred more than 15 years before the publication of Eric Knight’s iconic work, some speculate Bobbie’s homing trek inspired the fictional Lassie’s.
Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight is a novel published in 1940 and when it was made into a movie in 1943, the character rose to prominence. Sadly, Eric Knight never got to see the fame that Lassie acquired, because he was killed in a World War II plane crash in 1943.
Lassie Come Home: Directed by Fred M. Wilcox. With Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn. After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
