Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district before and had been mysteriously transferred, disrupting his romance with Helen Brent, the niece of Peter Barkley, the Factor at the trading post. An accountant of the company Berkley works for threatens to expose him when his account is found $10,000 short. Barkley pleads for more time to raise the money. His opportunity arises when he learns that Helen's father and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brent, has struck it rich and is on his way to visit Helen. Barkley instructs his henchmen Carney and Breen to lie in wait and rob Brent of his gold. Brent has a premonition of trouble and buries his gold, making a map of the location. Barkley is disturbed by the arrival of Corporal Hale and goes to warn his men, and finds them already engaged in the attack on Brent. Brent's dog Wolfgang (played by a dog named Rex, or maybe the other way around)...
Practical Effects
Wolfgang/Rex performs genuine dog heroics without CGI assistance.
Costume
Impeccable scarlet Mountie uniforms that absolutely steal every scene.
Director
Stuart Paton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The dog was billed as 'Wolfang as Rex, King of Dogs' — a name so confused it required its own decoder ring.
This was one of dozens of 'Mountie movies' produced in the 1930s, feeding American audiences' obsession with Canadian law enforcement that somehow never translated to actual tourism.
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