Big Red (film)

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	Songs: Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Score: Oliver Wallace
Cinematography	Edward Colman
Edited by	Grant K. Smith
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release dates	June 6, 1962 (1962-06-06)
Running time	89 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Big Red is a 1962 American family-oriented 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.

Filmed in the 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."

Cast

• Walter Pidgeon as James Haggin
• Gilles Payant as Rene Dumont
• Emile Genest as Emile Fornet
• Janette Bertrand as Therese Fornet
• Georges Bouvier as Baggageman
• Doris Lussier as Farmer Mariot
• Rolland Bedard as Conductor
• Teddy Burns Goulet as Engineer

External links

• Official website
• Big Red at IMDb
• New York Times review