Big Red | |
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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 |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Running time
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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."