Fargo is a 1952 black-and-white American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Myron Healey and Phyllis Coates. 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.
After his brotherâÂÂs 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.
The filmâÂÂs working title was Barbed Wire. But the film is not to be confused with the western film of that name released the same year.
âÂÂThis is just an average Elliott picture. I would only have it as a double-bill and nothing else.âÂÂ, wrote the anonymous commentator of new films in the Motion Picture Herald.
The Oak Leaf noted the film âÂÂhad ridinâÂÂ, shootinâÂÂ, and plenty of open spacesâ and rated it Very good.