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starring tommy rettig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course lassie

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oh hello tom how are you wonderful

just fine oh and this is melanie yes

dear this is jeff's mother

hello sweetheart oh we're so glad you

can spend a few days with us we've all

been looking forward to it especially

jeff oh mr miller hi there john glassy

come over and meet jeff's grandfather

hey it's good to see you you haven't

aged today well good air nourishing food

nobody nagging at me except melon here

oh yeah

this is gramps dear this is melanie dad

we're pleased to know you young lady

darling look you promised you weren't

going to do this you were going to be a

good little girl now

i don't want to stay here i want to go

with you

dad whistle jeff up

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not acting like a big grown-up girl now

i want to go with you i know sweetie but

you can't go now that's fun

now please excuse me yesterday

you know honey i think you'll have a lot

better time on the farm here than you

would go on with your dad you see you

can go fishing and swimming with jeff

and maybe we can rig up a hayride

where's he ever been on the hayride

well you've got a treat coming going on

a hayride is funnier than a three-year

mule

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i give her everything she wants yet

she's completely unhappy maybe you can

tell me what more does a 10 year old

need besides a nice home of governors

toys by the dozen uh pretty dresses

love and affection

feeling of being wanted well you know i

love her in water i could just as easily

have let her go to europe with henrietta

but i fought like a bull to keep her

here with me

i know it and you know it

tom does she know it

well does that make her destructive

destructive in what way

well she seems to want to destroy things

that other people value like last week

at school she deliberately spilled ink

on a girl's dress because the girl said

it was the prettiest dress she'd ever

had

and on the way up here she tried to

break one of my favorite golf clubs

because i said i might want to play some

golf while we were here what do you make

of that

well i could make a lot of that tom

but

let's see what happens the next few days

maybe by the time you come back i'll be

better able to tell you

right now prepare to be demolished

she always beats me i guess four legs

are better than two

jeff you remember mr mclaughlin why of

course how are you jeff fine thank you

sir jeff i want you to meet my daughter

melanie hello

oh you're right my hand to get your

gloves dirty

she wants to shake hands darling she's

dirtier than i am later girl

can i sit at the wheel mr mclaughlin you

bet jeff go right ahead

tom

are you sure you can't stay for dinner

oh i'd love to ellen but i'm late now

i've got a four o'clock appointment in

capital city

i'm sure glad you could stay with us for

a while

you came just in time for the big race

every year we have a dog raced a

different farm this time it's our turn

doc wilson from the 4-h club runs it

he's a vet lassie wanted two times in a

row she wins this year we'll get to keep

the trophy

she better win i've got narcissus bulbs

planted in that trophy

here let me get your bag

i'll take it i know where she's sleeping

all right jeff thanks

darling i know you're gonna have a

wonderful time

you'll be a good girl and if there's

anything you need you just asked mrs

miller

when are you coming back

let's see this is saturday probably

about tuesday or wednesday

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melanie

please

thanks again ellen and i hope she's not

too much trouble oh now don't you worry

about her we'll love having her all

right

see you in a few days miss miller french

i'm fine

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goodbye jeff you take good care of my

little girl i will

where's your secret place i can't tell

you

why not because if i told you it

wouldn't be a secret anymore

here's my ass

i want to see your secret place

you can't

why not

i told you why not that's a secret only

me and lassie know about it what's there

secret things

like what

i'm not gonna tell you so don't keep

asking me

you know how long it took me to catch

all these ants

how long more than a year who wants and

they're dirty and crawly and so are not

dirty they're clean they're smart too i

read all about them in the 4-h magazine

they build houses and tunnels they even

have little cows that they milk ha ha

don't believe it huh

i'll show you the magazine

you did that on purpose

get out

get out of here

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but mom she did it on purpose

i know she did die but she didn't mean

to do it oh she did too she just

she just took her hand knocked it right

off the bench

i'm not making myself very clear am i

should we try

again you see

melanie probably has a better bicycle

than you

and more toys and certainly more

spending money

but she doesn't have the one thing that

she needs

and that is people who love her doesn't

her father love her i'm sure he does but

for some reason

melanie doesn't seem to think so

well she still didn't have to knock my

ants off the bench

jeff i have a

a very special favor that i want to ask

you

a real special favor what

doc wilson just got here and the kids

are all down on the field with their

dogs

i want you to go to melanie's room

apologize

apologize

that too much to ask

it's an awful lot

but

but i'll do it

i think you're wonderful

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and you know what i'll do for you what

i'll even help you collect more ants

well are we all ready yeah looks like it

boys you get on down to finish line

george you go on down there and judge

them i'll start them off

now folks don't get in the way stand

back over there don't cross while the

race is on

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are you ready

on your mark

get set

go

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come on

lassie miss miller

i know darling isn't it wonderful

go find your daddy she beat him a mile

well not quite a mile but she beat him

prince will win the second heat then

we'll be lazy against prince just like

last year now maybe you can keep your

trophies and you can keep your

narcissist bald

i'm gonna go give lassie some water i

thought you weren't supposed to feed her

water her just a little won't hurt just

to wet her mouth may i take you to the

barns

well yes course you can darling run

along

i'll go with you

oh jeff bring me my straw hat it's in

the uh front hall closet i think okay

no lassie it's too hot out here in the

sun come on let's go on a cool barn

all right now sit

sit

stay i'll get you some water

here

especially on a hot day before a race

you can't feed or water them too much

slows them up that's enough you watch

while i get mom's hat

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you want this

good name

elastigirl

eat it

enjoy yourself

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are we ready boys your messy's ready all

right get down to finish line

george you'll be the judge again all

right

ladies and gentlemen

this is the final race

in this lane we have the winner of the

first heat lassie owned by jeff miller

the winner of the second heat prince

owned by jackie wells

are you ready down there get a rip

on your marks

get set

go

hey what's the matter with you

i better get this dog for birds

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he's dead mom

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she be all right doctor you sure want

her to be don't you boy will you just

keep stroking her head let her know that

you're here i'm here lassie i'll need a

pail about half full of warm water

george

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hey where's the meat was in this bite

there was a spoiled meat in there this

morning doc

that's it just as i suspected she ate

that meat she's been poisoned get

another tail unless he wouldn't eat

anything unless somebody gave it to her

just how bad was that meat

bad

doc i didn't know dog would eat spoil me

sometimes they will

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jeff could she possibly have eaten it

when you brought her back here for a

drink of water after the first race

mom you know lassie's trying not to eat

anything unless somebody gives it to her

that's it

somebody gave it to lassie so she lose

the race

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hold this dad

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melanie

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melanie

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melanie

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melanie

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now

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i figured she got to the meat about

noontime man jordan well it had to be

ellen brought it up and dumped it in the

pail before noon

unless he wouldn't take anything by

herself

she wouldn't eat anything unless

somebody gives it to her you know that

friends well i always thought so

hello jenny ellen miller listen do me a

favor would you dear call down the road

and find out if anyone saw the little

girl we've got visiting

yeah she must have wandered off

right

thank you dear bye

pete says lassie's gonna be all right

thank heavens

dad i you know it looked pretty bad for

a while though

you know i can't understand how she got

to the meeting like jeff says she don't

eat anything unless someone gives it to

her

someone did give it to her

i think it was melanie

where is she i can't find her she's gone

where's she gone

i don't know

jenny's checking down the road

well i'll find her and when i do she'll

get the weapon of her life so but you'll

do nothing of the sword now in the first

place she couldn't possibly have known

that that meat was spoiled and in the

second place dad she's only a child no

child or an old child she's done

something that

who's jenny now

and don't you do anything

hello

yes jenny

yes

she'll be up and rotting around at an

hour jeff knows what to give her just

something light for a couple of days

thanks pete much obliged forget it

george i think almost as much of that

dog as you do well cars cross the road

be seeing you right

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i wish you could talk so you could tell

me who it was that gave you that bad

meat

how is she darling

all right now

jeff dear

do you remember that long talk that we

had about melanie i tried to explain to

you why she broke the jar of hands

well i'm i'm afraid she's done something

else to make you unhappy

what i'm afraid it was melanie who gave

lassie the piece of bad meat

i know how you feel and i i don't blame

you why'd she do it why'd you try to

hurt lassie probably to keep lassie from

winning the race that was just

another way to make you unhappy i hate

her

i know i know darling but hating isn't

gonna help

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jeff when you listen to me

maybe this is our chance to do something

for melanie

she's run away

mrs beasley saw her down on the lake

road and

she's a terribly unhappy a terribly

frightened little girl

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i'd like you and gramps to go down to

the lake and bring her back

i could go but that that wouldn't help

i wanted to know that that you can be

big enough and generous enough to to

forgive her for what she did i can't mom

she almost killed lassie please don't

make me you know i won't ever make you

do anything darling

what i'm asking is

is is as much for you as it is for

melanie

you see

a part of growing up and and becoming a

nice person is is understanding other

people's faults

that's

that's why i want you to go and bring

her back

i want her to know that no matter no

matter what she did that she can still

have friends

and and she needs friends jeff

she needs them desperately

will you go

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all right but

please stay here with lassie

of course i will

and thank you jeff

we'd find it we find it

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aren't we lucky

you have a wonderful master and

i have a wonderful son

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you take the water's edge i look up

along the road okay

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me

melanie

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oh

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camera again i'll let her pull the under

that's it

goodbye

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oh come on now you mustn't think about

it anymore it's all over darling we know

that you didn't mean to poison lassie

you didn't even know the meat was

spoiled but i did try to make her lose

the race

was a bad thing no i don't know about

that maybe it was a good thing

maybe it taught you something may i come

in

of course

i

wild flowers

oh yeah they're beautiful

they smell pretty

thank you

oh there's a friend of yours who wants

to say hello

come on in

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this

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you