Fargo (1952)

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 brothers place and is welcomed by lawabiding 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 makeshift 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 doesnt take kindly to this and it precipitates open war