Big Red (film)

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Big Red
Directed by Norman Tokar
Produced by Walt Disney
Written by Jim Kjelgaard (novel)
Louis Pelletier
Starring Walter Pidgeon
Gilles Payant
Émile Genest
Music by Oliver Wallace
Cinematography Edward Colman
Editing by Grant K. Smith
Distributed by Walt Disney Productions
Release date(s) June 6, 1962
Running time 89 min.
Language English
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Big Red is a 1962 American family-oriented adventure film from Disney Studios. 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.

Set in the Canadian province of Quebec, "Big Red" is an Irish Setter that would rather run through the woods than be the perfectly-trained and groomed show dog his sportsman owner (Pidgeon) wants. A ten-year-old orphan boy (Payant) helps look after the dog and rebels against his owner's strict discipline of "Big Red."

[edit] Primary cast

  • Walter Pidgeon  : James Haggin
  • Gilles Payant  : Rene Dumont
  • Émile Genest  : Emile Fornet
  • Janette Bertrand  : Therese Fornet
  • Georges Bouvier  : Baggageman
  • Doris Lussier  : Farmer Mariot


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