Big Red (Film), released 1962 — adapted from Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard.
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.
Starring Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Émile Genest, Janette Bertrand, Georges Bouvier.
Directed by Norman Tokar.
