“Lassie” returns to another generation of U.S. children today in a new film that hews closely to the original, dark tale of the loyal collie and her boy in wartime England, instead of the sunny ...

For generations, Lassie has been more than just a television star. The loyal Collie captured hearts beginning in the 1950s, when the long-running Lassie series became a staple of family living rooms.