Fargo

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Lewis D. Collins

Writers

Joseph F. Poland, Jack DeWitt

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

7 September 1952

Ensemble

Cast

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  Bill Elliott

  Bill Martin

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  Myron Healey

  Red Olsen

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  Phyllis Coates

  Kathy MacKenzie

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  Fuzzy Knight

  Tad Sloan

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  Arthur Space

  Austin

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  Jack Ingram

  Rancher MacKenzie

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  Robert J. Wilke

  Link - Henchman

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  Terry Frost

  Alvord - Henchman

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  Robert Bray

  Ed Murdock

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  Denver Pyle

  Carey

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  Tim Ryan

  Sam

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  Florence Lake

  Maggie