Name this film (Please. It's been bugging me)

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I have watched this film twice but cannot remember the name of it.

It was made some time in the 1960s - In Britain I think.

It is set in Scotland -the highlands - in the Victorian period and is about a grumpy doctor. He has a dog who is afraid of swimming.

The doctor has an assistant who falls ill and he gets a specialist to come up from London.

He treats one patient's fever by sitting him in a barrel of cold water but feeding him whiskey to keep him warm.

One night the bridge gets washed away and the doctor falls off his horse. The dog overcomes its fear of swimming to go and get help.

Anyone know what it is called? I thought it was called 'Home from the Hills' but apparently it is not.

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Do you know any of the actors?
 

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"'Hills of Home' is one of the older Lassie films. This film is about Lassie and her owner, an elderly doctor in a small, rural village. I have the video of this film, and I watched it when I was younger, but out of all the Lassie films, this is my least favourite and a film that I could not get into. (Maybe this film is made for adults, and maybe that is why I could not appreciate it; I'm sure it was probably a good book and had some good ideas.) I felt the film was slow-moving, and I found it difficult to understand or really get engaged in the plot. The film only became interesting when the doctor had to go out in rough weather on a house call, and he is knocked off his horse. Lassie has to brave the weather to get help."