BELLE STARR
DIRECTED BY IRVING CUMMINGS
MUSIC BY ALFRED NEWMAN
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
The setting is the Civil War and its aftermath.
Belle's family has lost their land to Yankees.
She marries Confederate guerilla leader Sam Starr and they continue activities
against exploiters until she is shot riding to alert Sam to a trap.
Highly romanticized and little connection with history.
Written by Ed Stephan
Cast
Randolph Scott ... Sam Starr
Gene Tierney ... Miss Belle / Belle Starr
Dana Andrews ... Maj. Thomas Crail
Shepperd Strudwick ... Ed Shirley (as John Shepperd)
Elizabeth Patterson ... Sarah
Chill Wills ... Blue Duck
Louise Beavers ... Mammy Lou
Olin Howland ... Jasper Trench
Paul E. Burns ... Sergeant (as Paul Burns)
Joe Sawyer ... John Cole (as Joseph Sawyer)
Joe Downing ... Jim Cole (as Joseph Downing)
Howard C. Hickman ... Col. Thornton (as Howard Hickman)
Charles Trowbridge ... Col. Bright
James Flavin ... Sergeant
Charles Middleton ... Carpetbagger
Mae Marsh ... Preacher's Wife (uncredited)
and many more... ...
Directed
Irving Cummings
Writing Credits
Lamar Trotti ... (screenplay)
Niven Busch ... (story) and
Cameron Rogers ... (story)
Produced
Kenneth Macgowan ... producer
Music
Alfred Newman
David Buttolph ... (uncredited)
Cyril J. Mockridge ... (uncredited)
Cinematography
Ernest Palmer ... director of photography
Ray Rennahan ... director of photography
Trivia
Originally, Alice Faye was set to play the title role.
Alfred Newman's title music was originally composed for and used
in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) made two years earlier.
In 1950, 20th Century Fox reissued this film on a bill with
Guadalcanal Diary (1943) and The Purple Heart (1944).
Taglines
The exciting loves and battles of America's first "Two-Gun" Woman!
Filmed in TECHNICOLOR in the "Jesse James" Country
First of the West's Flaming "Gun-Molls"! The Petticoat Terror of the Ozarks!
She Was a Wonderful Sweetheart...But a Terrible Enemy!
A GREAT NEW SCREEN PERSONALITY!...Miss GENE TIERNEY FLAMES TO STARDOM AS "THE BANDIT QUEEN"! No woman was ever a more tender sweetheart...
or a more relentless champion of right!
Goofs
Revealing mistakes
When Ed Shirley is shot from his horse, he is shown from a distance,
but you can still see that instead of being knocked off his horse,
he dismounts by lifting his leg up and over the saddle in front of him
and then falling to the ground.
Filming Locations
Iverson Ranch - 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Agoura, California, USA
Santa Susana Mountains, California, USA
Sherwood Forest, California, USA
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