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Challenge to Lassie   1949         G, 76 min. Genre: Family / Drama Director: Richard Thorpe   Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen, Alan Webb, Ross Ford, Henry Stephenson, Alan Napier, Sara Allgood, Edmund Breon, Arthur Shields, Lumsden Hare, Charles Irwin   This "Lassie" story takes place in 19th-century Edinburgh where Lassie has been keeping watch over her dead master's grave—until she encounters strict police Sergeant Davie (Reginald Owen) who wants Lassie destroyed because he claims she is a stray. But, Lassie's life is spared when kindly innkeeper John Traill (Edmund Gwenn) proves to the court that Lassie, indeed, is not a stray when they track her down to her deceased owner's gravesite. Cast Edmund Gwenn John Traill Donald Crisp "Jock" Gray Geraldine Brooks Susan Brown Reginald Owen Sergeant Davie Alan Webb James Brown Ross Ford William Traill Henry Stephenson Sir Charles Loring Alan Napier Lord Provost Sara Allgood Mrs. MacFarland Edmund Breon Magistrate Arthur Shields Dr. Lee Lumsden Hare MacFarland Charles Irwin Sergeant Major