Fargo

Name: Fargo
Genre: Action, Western
Released: 07 Sep 1952
Rating: 6.50
Cast: Bill Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates, Fuzzy Knight, Arthur Space

The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-abiding cattleman MacKenzie (Jack Ingram)) and his daughter Kathy (Phyllis Coates). The leader of the ruthless cattle interests are townsman Austin (Arthur Space) and his henchmen Red (Myron Healey), Link (Robert J. Wilke) and Albord (Terry Frost). Bill has the idea of putting up barbed wire to keep the herds from been driven over the land cultivated by the farmers. He, aided by Tad Sloan (Fuzzy Knight), produces the wire by make-shift methods, but it proves effective. The cattleman charge in court that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case. Austin orders his men to seize Bill, bale him in strands of the wire, and throw him on the stage of the town hall during a fall festival. Bill doesn't take kindly to this and it precipitates open war.

Year: 1952

Genre: Action, Western

Studio: Monogram Pictures, Silvermine Productions

Director: Lewis D. Collins

Cast: Bill Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates, Fuzzy Knight, Arthur Space, Jack Ingram

Crew: Lewis D. Collins (Director), Joseph F. Poland (Writer), Jack DeWitt (Writer), Vincent M. Fennelly (Producer)

Runtime: 69 minutes

Release: Sep 07, 1952

IMDb: 6.50/10 by 4 users

Popularity: 2

Country: United States of America

Language: English