..that crazy fella that""s a runnin"" it....They say he ain""t scared of nothing.If he wants a picture of a lion, he just goes up to him and tells him to look pleasant." Everybody around the dock is talking about the unusually large cargo and number of crew members - "three times more than the ship needs.SWAT teams and police assembled (Billy had over-orchestrated "Operation Truck Siege") as the truck was opened in the secured area, and found to be empty.Queeg revealed one of his nervous habits - he withdrew a pair of steel ball-bearings and rolled them in one shaking hand.THIS IS A TRUE STORY.The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987.At the request of the survivors, he names have been changed.Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.Although the film is namedFargo, the location of the initial scene in North Dakota, most of the film""s action is set in Minnesota (the towns of Brainerd and Minneapolis) and on the road to and from Fargo, during approximately a week of time in late January and early February.