- Big Red (film)
Infobox_Film
name = Big Red
imdb_id = 0055793
producer =Walt Disney
director =Norman Tokar
writer =Jim Kjelgaard (novel)Louis Pelletier
starring =Walter Pidgeon Gilles Payant Émile Genest
music =Oliver Wallace
cinematography =Edward Colman
editing =Grant K. Smith
distributor =Walt Disney Productions
released =June 6 ,1962
runtime = 89 min.
language = English"Big Red" is a 1962 American family-oriented
adventure film from Disney Studios. Based on a 1945 novel by American authorJim Kjelgaard and adapted to the screen by Americanscreenwriter Louis Pelletier , the film starredWalter Pidgeon .Set in the Canadian province of
Quebec , "Big Red" is anIrish Setter that would rather run through the woods than be the perfectly-trained and groomedshow 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."Primary cast
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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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