Big Red (1962)
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, live in a separate house on the estate. To start a line of top show dogs, Haggin purchases the winner of the Montreal Kennel Club show, an Irish setter named Red.
- Date of release
- 1962-06-06
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
- Director
- Norman Tokar
Casting
- Walter Pidgeon — James Haggin
- Gilles Payant — Rene Dumont
- Émile Genest — Emile Fornet
- Janette Bertrand — Therese Fornet
- Georges Bouvier — Baggageman
- Doris Lussier — Farmer Mariot
- Rolland Bédard — Conductor
- Teddy Burns Goulet — Engineer
Interesting facts
Big Red is a 1962 adventure film from Walt Disney Productions. Based on a 1945 novel by American author Jim Kjelgaard and adapted to the screen by American screenwriter Louis Pelletier, the film starred Walter Pidgeon, a close friend of Walt Disney. Pidgeon who was born in Canada recommended some of the locations for the film.
Production
Filming partly occurred in Big Bear Lake, California.
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