Fargo (1952 film)
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| Directed by | Lewis D. Collins |
| Written by | Jack DeWitt Joseph F. Poland |
| Produced by | Vincent M. Fennelly |
| Starring | Wild Bill Elliott Myron Healey Phyllis Coates |
| Cinematography | Ernest Miller |
| Edited by | Sam Fields |
| Music by | Raoul Kraushaar |
Production company | Silvermine Productions |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Fargo is a 1952 black-and-white[1] American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Myron Healey and Phyllis Coates.[2][3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Dave Milton. It was shot at the Iverson Ranch. The film is set in the Dakota Territory.[1]
After his brother’s murder by ruthless ranchers, Bill Martin decides to recreate and fence the land of the ranch they both had inherited from their father; he uses a then new material: barbed wire. Among tensions between ranchers and homesteaders, Bill received the help of cattleman Loren McKenzie and his daughter Kathy.
Cast
- Wild Bill Elliott as Bill Martin
- Myron Healey as Red Olsen
- Phyllis Coates as Kathy MacKenzie
- Fuzzy Knight as Tad Sloan
- Arthur Space as Austin
- Jack Ingram as MacKenzie - Rancher
- Robert J. Wilke as Link - Henchman
- Terry Frost as Alvord - Henchman
- Robert Bray as Ed Murdock
- Denver Pyle as Carey
- Tim Ryan as Sam
- Florence Lake as Maggie
- Stanley Andrews as Judge Bruce
- Richard Reeves as Bartender
- Gene Roth as Blacksmith
- I. Stanford Jolley as Farmer
- House Peters Jr. as Bill Martin's Brother
- Buddy Roosevelt as Henchman
Production
The film’s working title was Barbed Wire.[1] But the film is not to be confused with the western film of that name released the same year.
Reception
”This is just an average Elliott picture. I would only have it as a double-bill and nothing else.”, wrote the anonymous commentator of new films in the Motion Picture Herald. [4]
The Oak Leaf noted the film ”had ridin’, shootin’, and plenty of open spaces” and rated it Very good.[5]
