Hills of Home, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, Lassie, Edmund Gwenn, Janet Leigh

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Hills of Home, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, Lassie, Edmund Gwenn, Janet Leigh
Hills of Home, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, Lassie, Edmund Gwenn, Janet Leigh
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1948, family feature, "Hills of Home".
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
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This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
Dr. William MacLure (Edmund Gwenn) a Scottish doctor, adopts Lassie, who has an unnatural aversion to water. The Dr. tries to cure Lassie of her fears, but she remains water-shy.
Young Tammas Milton needs an operation. The doctor wants to use chloroform but the locals in the Glen are against this new idea. The doctor proves its worth by using it to put Lassie to sleep for over twenty minutes. After operating in his own house to save the young man's life, the elderly doctor in payment has extracted a promise from his father, a friend who was the previous owner of Lassie, that he will allow him to send the young man on a four-year medical course in Edinburgh so he can take over from him one day as doctor in the Glen.
The young man when recovered is sent away and the increasingly old doctor continues administering to his patients in the area, who begin to fear for his health. One snowy night the doctor is called out and sees a patient. On the way home, he dozes off on his horse and a tree branch knocks him down into the snow. Lassie rushes across a damaged bridge over a flood swollen river to get help and when she returns with two men, the bridge has been washed away.
With MacLure's life in danger, the dog is forced to dive into a raging river to get to the other side. After almost being pulled under by a whirlpool twice, Lassie makes the other side on her second attempt and seeing this, the two men wade across the waist deep flooded river. They find MacLure who is still unconscious in the snow and very cold and get him home. He eventually comes to and spends some days in bed but it has been too much for him and he dies. Shortly after his funeral, attended by all in the Glen, the new doctor arrives, having passed his exams, and takes over the practice.
Trivia
:
When Dr McClure is called to a pub Lassie carries his bag in her mouth and drops it on the pub floor. The doctor, finding his patient, the landlord's son, only has stomach ache storms out but without his bag.
In 2010, Film Score Monthly released the complete scores of the seven Lassie feature films released by MGM between 1943 and 1955 as well as Elmer Bernstein’s score for It's a Dog's Life (1955) in the CD collection: Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection, limited to 1000 copies. Due to the era when these scores were recorded, nearly half of the music masters have been lost so the scores had to be reconstructed and restored from the best available sources, mainly the Music and Effects tracks as well as monaural ¼″ tapes.
The score for Hills of Home was composed by Herbert Stothart. Although none of the music masters for the fourth film in the series survive, FSM has included the opening music from the film's music-and-effects tracks to provide listeners an idea of Herbert Stothart’s richly colored score for the picture.
Based on the sketches "Doctor of the Old School" by Ian MacLaren in Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush (New York, 1894).
Hills of Home was Leigh's third film, and her second in which the California-born actress had to do an accent - she plays a Scottish girl. In her autobiography, Leigh recalled that her acting coach took extra time preparing her. And when Leigh began work on the film and met Wilcox, she realized why.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1948
Genre:
Drama, Family, Adventure
Director(s):
Fred M. Wilcox
Producer(s):
Robert Sisk
Cast
:
Pal (credited as "Lassie") as Lassie
Edmund Gwenn as Dr. William MacLure
Donald Crisp as Drumsheugh
Tom Drake as Tammas Milton
Janet Leigh as Margit Mitchell
Rhys Williams as Mr. Milton
Reginald Owen as Hopps
Edmund Breon as Jamie Soutar
Alan Napier as Sir George
Hughie Green as Geordie Howe
Lumsden Hare as Lord Kilspindie
Eileen Erskine as Mrs. Belle Saunders
More Info on Edmund Gwenn
:
Edmund Gwenn was an English film and television actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. He may be best remembered for playing
Santa Claus
in
Miracle on 34th Street
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and some of his other movies include: Them!,
Lassie of Home
, Parnell, Mister 880 (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and Pride and Prejudice. He passed away in 1959 at the age of 81.
More Info on Donald Crisp
:
Donald Crisp was an English actor from the 1900s to the 1960s. In an unusual twist, started out as an actor in 1908 and appeared in around 75 movies over the next six years, and then became a director. Over the next 15 years, he directed 72 movies, and only appeared as an actor in around a dozen. But then in 1930, at the age of 50, he resumed his acting career, and made 75 more movies as an actor! He was very much in demand for all sorts of "older man" parts, and he stayed in remarkable physical condition, playing an ordinary seaman in the 1935 "
Mutiny on the Bounty
" at the age of 56, How Green Was My Valley (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1941, and playing Elizabeth Taylor's father in "
National Velvet
" at the age of 65. He continued acting all the way until 1963, playing "Grandpa Spencer" in "
Spencer's Mountain
", at the age of 84, and he lived another 11 years! Crisp passed away in 1974 at the age of 91.
More Info on Tom Drake
:
Tom Drake was an actor from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include: Meet Me in St. Louis, Mrs. Parkington, and House of the Black Death. He also appeared on TV's "77 Sunset Strip" and "The Green Hornet"! Drake passed away in 1982 at the age of 64.
More Info on Janet Leigh
:
Janet Leigh was an actress from the 1940s to the 2000s. She was married to
Tony Curtis
and is the mother of
Jamie Lee Curtis
. She is best remembered for her shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). Some of her other movies include: Hills of Home,
Little Women
, Holiday Affair, Touch of Evil, The Manchurian Candidate,
Bye Bye Birdie
, and The Fog. She passed away in 2004 at the age of 77.
More Info on Lassie the Dog
:
Lassie is the fictional female Collie, created in a short story by
Eric Knight
in 1938. In 1943, MGM made a movie of this story, which had been expanded into a novel, called "
Lassie Come Home
", and the movie starred Pal, a male 3 year old Collie. Ironically, Pal was not the first choice, not only because he was male, but because it was thought he did not look right. A show dog that was female and "looked" right was cast in the lead, and Pal was intended to be its stunt double. However, Pal proved to be so talented that it was decided that he would get the part! He starred in six more Lassie films and then also in the two pilots for the TV show in 1954, and then retired and passed away in 1958 at the age of 18. His descendants played future Lassies in the many
TV shows
and movies that followed!
More Info on Rhys Williams
:
Rhys Williams was a Welsh character actor from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was actually born in Wales, but he often portrayed jovial Irish characters! Some of his movies include: How Green Was My Valley, The Black Arrow, and The Inspector General. Rhys passed away in 1969 at the age of 71.
More Info on Reginald Owen
:
Reginald Owen was an English-born actor from the 1910s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include: Henry VIII, The Letter, Sherlock Holmes (as Dr. Watson),
Of Human Bondage
, Mrs. Miniver, The Great Diamond Robbery, and Tammy and the Doctor. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 85.
More Info on Fred M. Wilcox
:
Fred M. Wilcox was a director from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his films include:
Forbidden Planet
, Lassie Come Home, Shadow in the Sky, and
The Secret Garden
. he passed away in 1964 at the age of 56.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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