Hills of Home

Hills of Home is a 1948 Technicolor drama film, the fourth in a series of MGM Lassie films. It starred Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, and Tom Drake. Dr. William MacLure 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 it's 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 as doctor in the Glen day. 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.
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