Fargo (1952 film)

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Fargo
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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
Release date
  • September 7, 1952 (1952-09-07)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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Plot

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

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
  2. ↑ Blottner p.48
  3. ↑ Fitzgerald, Michael G. (2010). Ladies of the western : interviews with 25 actresses from the Silent Era to the television westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. Internet Archive. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland. p. 27. ISBN   978-0-7864-3938-6.
  4. ↑ Quigley Publishing Co. (1952). Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1952). Media History Digital Library. New York, Quigley Publishing Co.
  5. ↑ https://archive.org/details/TheOakLeaf1952July5December20/The%20Oak%20Leaf%20%281952%20July%205-December%2020%29/page/n75/mode/2up?q=%E2%80%9DFargo%E2%80%9D

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