The Magic of Lassie (1978)
ジャンル : ドラマ, アドベンチャー, ファミリー
上映時間 : 1時間 40分
演出 : Don Chaffey
脚本 : Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Jean Holloway
シノプシス
Lassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin the ones that love her.
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the trucker's now-abandoned collie on the side of the road, they take pity on the dog and adopt her. As the city family copes with the change to rural life, including a feud with a neighboring farm family who resent the city interlopers, the ever-loyal Lassie helps them adjust to their new surroundings.
エリック・ナイトの原作を豪華キャストで映画化した、少年と犬の友情ストーリー。9歳の少年ジョーとその親友のコリー犬・ラッシー。だが、生活に困った両親がラッシーを公爵に売ってしまう。ラッシーは何度もジョーのもとに戻ろうとするが……。
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
Lassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin the ones that love her.
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that he is getting older and must ensure the glen will have a new local doctor ready.
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog.
The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, leaving the kids and Lassie on their own.
A two-part episode of the original Lassie television series (that aired in 1971) made into a single TV-movie.
In this touching drama a disparate group of people rally together to save a dog that has fallen into a deep well.
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
1920年型の伝説のバイク“インディアン”に乗る、年金暮らしの老人。彼がユタ州のボンヌヴィル塩平原で行なわれるレースで世界最速記録に挑戦する……。夢を追い続ける老齢ライダーの実話をもとにした、アンソニー・ホプキンス主演の感動映画。
ルイジアナ州ニューオリンズ。看護士のキャロラインは、老婦人のヴァイオレットと脳梗塞で全く身動き出来ない夫のベンが住んでいる古い屋敷に住み込みで働くことになった。その屋敷には鏡が一つもなく、至る所に魔よけのレンガ屑が撒いてある。働き始めて間もなく、バイオレットから全ての部屋を開けられる合鍵を預かるキャロライン。そしてある日、彼女はその鍵でも開けられない部屋を発見する。そこから、土地に伝わる古呪術“フードゥー”の存在と、昔この家で起こった惨劇を知らされる。