Year: 1962
Runtime: 89 mins
Language: English
Director: Norman Tokar
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on Quebec estate Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin’s hunting dogs, and his wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), the cook and housekeeper, live in a house on the estate. Haggin buys Red, the Irish setter that won the Montreal Kennel Club show, to start a top line of show dogs.
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