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Snow Dog

1950 American film by Frank McDonald

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Snow Dog is a 1950 American Northern film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Elena Verdugo and Rick Vallin. It was the third of a series of ten films featuring Grant as a Canadian Mountie.

01Plot

Men have been found in the White Woods after being killed by the Phantom Wolf, which looks like Corporal Rod McDonald’s dog Chinook. When Corporal McDonald and Chinook come to investigate the locals fear the dog and want to kill him. McDonald discovers that the Phantom Wolf had been trained to kill by men trying to obtain mineral rights in the area.

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