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
Editing by	Grant K. Smith
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution (Theatrical) Anchor Bay Entertainment (Region 1 DVD)
Release date(s)	June 6, 1962
Running time	89 min.
Language	English

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.

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."

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
• Champion Red Aye Scraps - Big Red

External links

• Big Red at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times review