Lassie Come Home (1943) -

Yet, she also encounters kindness. An elderly couple, the Foulds, take her in when she collapses on their doorstep, nursing her back to health. Though they grow fond of her, they realize she is driven by a higher purpose and let her go. She also travels for a time with Rowlie, a cheerful traveling peddler, and defends him fiercely from robbers.

Months pass. Back in Yorkshire, the winter chill has set in. Joe has given up hope, believing he will never see his friend again. Lassie Come Home (1943)

In the lean years of the Great Depression, in a hard-scrabble Yorkshire mining village, a boy named Joe Carraclough had one constant joy: his rough collie, Lassie. Every afternoon at exactly four o'clock, Lassie would wait by the school gate, her bright eyes fixed on the doors until Joe emerged. They were inseparable, a boy and his dog bound by a love that required no words. But poverty has a cruel way of shattering joy. Yet, she also encounters kindness