Fargo

Fargo

HE BLAZED HIS WAY ACROSS SAVAGE PLAINS...and wrote his name in powder-smoke...in the town the law forgot!

1952 · 69 min · ★ 6.6 · Action, Western

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.

Directed by Lewis D. Collins · Written by Joseph F. Poland

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Bill Elliott Bill Martin
Myron Healey Red Olsen
Phyllis Coates Kathy MacKenzie
Fuzzy Knight Tad Sloan
Arthur Space Austin
Jack Ingram Rancher MacKenzie
Robert J. Wilke Link - Henchman
Terry Frost Alvord - Henchman
Robert Bray Ed Murdock
Denver Pyle Carey
Tim Ryan Sam
Florence Lake Maggie

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