7/10
Liz is again the overwrought, ecstatic child...
4 June 2005
Warning: Spoilers
In "Courage of Lassie," the dog gets top billing, but a pretty teenager (Liz Taylor) has plenty of crying and hugging to do as a supremely devoted mistress…

Another heart-warming story, filmed in the wilderness of Washington State, the movie (which begins with a long, curious, wild-life sequence) mixes farm-family folksiness with an unusual dog story: Lassie goes to a training school for war dogs, is shipped to the front and performs heroically… Returned to America, the dog suffers a nervous collapse, becoming a menace to society…

As the willful farm girl who finds a dog, loses a dog, and regains a dog, Liz Taylor is again the overwrought, ecstatic child, lavishing her attention on Lassie…

Because her greatest fame came later, as a young woman, most people forget what a skillful child actress she was… Less burdened than at any later time by her beauty and fame, she is at her least self-conscious in these early performances… Untouched, she reveals in these animal stories her natural flair for tears and hugs—the paraphernalia of an emotional female
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