Minor Role (uncredited) Olaf Hytten as Reeves (uncredited) Music In 2010, Film Score Monthly released the complete scores of the seven Lassie feature films released by MGM between 1943 and 1955 as well as Elmer Bernstein’s score for It's a Dog's Life (1955) in the CD collection Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection, limited to 1000 copies. Due to the era when these scores were recorded, nearly half of the music masters have been lost so the scores had to be reconstructed and restored from the best available sources, mainly the Music and Effects tracks as well as monaural ¼″ tapes. The score for Challenge to Lassie was composed by André Previn. The music-and-effects tracks from Challenge to Lassie supplied by the studio were missing approximately 10 minutes of the score. In order to provide the most complete listening experience of this early Previn effort, FSM has taken these missing tracks directly from the film, incorporated in chronological film order along with the music-and-effects tracks. Track listing for Challenge to Lassie (Disc 4) Main Title and Foreword* - 1:26 Market Day* - 0:48 Lassie’s First Love* - 1:10 First Lesson* - 0:29 Sheep Herding*/Jock and the Flock* - 2:41 You’ve Trained Her Well* - 0:24 There’s My Bonnie* - 0:38 Jock Is Attacked* - 1:17 After the Fight*† - 0:44 Graveyard Lassie* - 0:20 John Sans Pants* - 0:44 Complaining Neighbors* - 1:03 The Journey*/Lassie’s Last Lap* - 4:11 Lassoed Lassie* - 1:05 No Exit* - 0:48 Cornered Collie*† - 0:20 Down the Cliffs*/Here’s Lassie*† - 2:09 I Cannot Apologize*† - 0:47 Laugh After Laugh*† & End Title*/End Cast - 1:18 Contains Sound Effects †Contains Dialogue Total Time: 23:04 Reception According to MGM records the film earned $850,000 in the US and Canada and $330,000 overseas resulting in a loss to the studio of $156,000. Availability Challenge to Lassie was released to VHS on July 15, 1997 as part of the Lassie Collection series. It featured Geraldine Brooks on the cover with Lassie and was in a clamshell case. A second VHS version was released on September 1, 1998 featuring Donald Crisp and Lassie on the cover and in a standard slipcover case. Both versions are now out of print and no DVD version has been released, however it airs periodically on Turner Classic Movies. References External links 1949 films Lassie films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1940s English-language films Films scored