“Lassie Come Home,” “Sherlock Holmes Faces Death” (Movie Reviews-10/8/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 10/8/43 | Bosley Crowther, T.S.

[iowamark]

“Sherlock Holmes Faces Death” also stars Milburn Stone, later to be Doc on Gunsmoke.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

There's one scene in "Lassie Come Home" that gets me every time. Lassie has just swum across a river after walking across Scotland. She's nearly dead and she ends up at the doorstep of a childless old couple. They take her in, nurse her back to health, and love her. But when she recovers, she begins looking at the door. They know that she's on a mission and that they have to let her go. They open the gate and Lassie walks out, giving one last look at the old couple standing in the door.

And then there's "Courage of Lassie," also with Elizabeth Taylor, in which Lassie (actually Pal, playing a dog named Bill--they just put Lassie in the title) suffers from PTSD from WW2, hops a freight train, goes a sheep-killing rampage, has flashbacks to the war, goes on trial and is finally returned home.

[colorado tanker]

”American women...helping the UNITED NATIONS win the war”. Talk about priming the public...

That is how the Allies referred to themselves during the War. Read a few of Homer's WWII by day posts and you'll see it in the papers.

Since they named the post-War organization the same thing, apparently some had expectations it would foster an era of one big happy for the victors. Didn't work out that way, did it?

[Gennie]

I think I have seen Skippy on hmmm, KTV? One of the Christian channels that have kids tv shows. It looked like it was made in the 60s or 70s, so before my time lol. I think they may also run Lassie (the older tv series) and the Lone Ranger, may be something you can look into?