Whenever a film involves using animals, reptiles, birds, etc. only the wranglers (handlers) and the members of the cast are allowed near these creatures. Even the director stays apart.  I have worked with cats, dogs, camels, elephants, seals, chimps, kangaroos, rattle snakes, cows, horses, Brahma bulls, a skunk, a Himalayan bear, 500 rats in the film Willard, pigeons, macaws, owls, falcons and even baby chicks.

I worked on another film with Walter Brennan in which he was the owner of a pregnant beagle - "Who's Minding the Mint"?

Thank you for the sequel and the colored flier, etc.  Has the video version been colorized?  Wellman's one regret was that he did not shoot this film in color.

I wish  I could tell you more about the Basenjis but as I said earlier in this letter, it has been a very long time since I have seen this film.

Yours very sincerely,
Hazel H. Hall

From "Friends"
magazine-
May 1956

Loafing Between Scenes.
When filming was finished,"Lady" was given to Brandon (shown here with stand - in David Hard) to keep at his home in Baldwin, Long Island.

Romping with "Lady". The dog in the film is a Basenji hound, a rare breed of hunting dog that never barks; instead, it makes a strange, half-laughing, half-yodeling sound.

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