Challenge to Lassie

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Challenge to Lassie

the story of a stray puppy taken in by a sheepherder, then trained to be a sheep dog and companion. After robbers kill the master, the dog keeps vigil over the man’s grave and refuses to let anyone else own her. But local law requires that all dogs be leashed and licensed by a legal guardian. Without a master, Lassie is a stray that must be euthanized. When Lassie goes on trial, the local pub owner and townspeople come to her rescue. The court pronounces her a free citizen of Edinburgh, thereby allowed to reside in the Church graveyard and keep vigil by her master’s grave.

It’s A Big Country

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It’s A Big Country

is a cinematic collage comprised of eight unrelated episodes by some of MGM’s best directors, screenwriters and actors. A university professor’s lecture frames the stories. In one anecdote, a Boston woman angrily recounts how a census taker forgets to record her presence; another sketch pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.

Carbine Williams

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Carbine Williams

is about a workingman who moonlights as a bootlegger. Police raid his property while he’s distilling moonshine, and a federal officer dies in the shootout. The workingman goes to jail for second-degree murder, then spends his time in the prison’s tool shop. He can repair anything with pieces of scrap metal. Eventually, he invents a repeating rifle with a short piston, the foundation of the M1 Carbine used during WWII.