On Episode No. 119 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, the podcast’s resident cinephilic trio; Bryan, Dan, and Preston; unearth a forgotten curio from the tail end of the 1970s: The Magic of Lassie, a film whose very existence registers as a kind of cinematic non sequitur. Most Americans, even the least dog-inclined among us, can conjure the image of Lassie, the noble and ever-loyal Rough Collie, bounding across fields to rescue children from abandoned wells. What few remember, or ever knew, is that in 1978, Lassie starred in a musical with pro-wrestling. Yes, a musical.

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