Pierre of the Plains is a 1942 Northern film set in Saskatchewan, Canada, directed by George B. Seitz and starring John Carroll and Ruth Hussey.
The supporting cast features Bruce Cabot, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Evelyn Ankers and Sheldon Leonard.
Pierre (Carroll), a singing French-Canadian trapper, acts as a non-commissioned law enforcement officer, punishing traveling salesman Clerou (Leonard) for "selling whiskey to Indians."
After Pierre's shrewd planning destroys the possibly of a marriage to Daisy, Durkin vows revenge.
While riding horseback en route to town and back to his rural campsite, he often breaks into the song "Saskatchewan."