The Wild North

The Wild North (also known as The Big North, Constable Pedley, The Constable Pedley Story, The Wild North Country and North Country) is a 1952 American Western film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey and Cyd Charisse. It was the first Ansco Color film shot. Plot Jules Vincent, a French-Canadian trapper (Stewart Granger), while in a northern Canadian town, helps an attractive Indian singer (Cyd Charisse), fend off unwanted attentions from a drunken Max Brody (Howard Petrie). The next day, Vincent sets off by canoe into the Canadian wilderness, taking the Indian girl up north to her tribe, now accompanied by a contrite Brody. When only the Vincent and Indian girl arrive at her Chippewa village, Vincent tells the chief (John War Eagle) that Brody had acted recklessly by trying to run the rapids, and that he then tried to shoot Brody in the shoulder to graze it and frighten him, but that he accidentally killed Brody when the canoe pitched wildly and spoiled his aim. Intent on avoiding arrest for murder, Vincent heads alone into the wilderness. After North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) Constable Pedley (Wendell Corey) arrives at the village on another matter, he learns about Brody's death. Pedley finds Vincent's cabin where the Indian girl tells him that Vincent is not a murderer. The NWMP Constable, however, is determined to bring Vincent in, saying running away makes the trapper look guilty.