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Belle Starr
She Was a Wonderful Sweetheart...But a Terrible Enemy!
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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- Belle Starr
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- US
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Feb 12, 2026 · via TMDB
With the Confederacy defeated in the American Civil War, the feisty “Belle” (Gene Tierney) has to juggle the largely unwanted attentions of Yankee major “Crail” (Dana Andrews) with her desire to help rebel captain “Starr” (Randolph Scott) stay out of his clutches. That doesn’t go so well, and though he manages to escape it means her grand mansion house is reduced to ashes in punishment. This just drives her further into the arms of “Starr” whom she duly marries and whom, together with some other like-minded spirits, decide to make Missouri as unwelcoming for the blue-coats as they can. Their considerable success attracts a few unsavoury characters which disturbs “Belle” as she is fighting for a principle, and that doesn’t include robbing (or worse) innocent civilians. “Starr”, on the other hand, sees it all as fair game if it damages their enemy. So what is to become of their marriage, and their love if they can’t compromise? Some of the “Robin Hood” elements of this work at times, and Tierney can’t be accused of playing half-measures, but Scott and Andrews just don’t deliver well at all. I always found Scott a little too weak around the knees, so as a nasty - even for a cause - he just doesn’t cut it. This routine feature also reminds you just how important the second string actors were for this genre, and without a Brennan, Bond or McLaglen figure to enliven and characterise it, this is all a bit sterile.
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Gene Tierney
Belle Starr
Randolph Scott
Sam Starr
Dana Andrews
Thomas Crail
Shepperd Strudwick
Ed Shirley
Elizabeth Patterson
Sarah
Chill Wills
Blue Duck
Louise Beavers
Mammy Lou
Olin Howland
Jasper Trench
Paul E. Burns
Sergeant
Joe Sawyer
John Cole
Joe Downing
Jim Cole
Howard Hickman
Colonel Thornton
Charles Trowbridge
Colonel Bright
James Flavin
Sergeant
Charles Middleton
Carpetbagger
Hooper Atchley
Carpetbagger
Matthew Beard
Young Jake (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Bartender (uncredited)
Mary Currier
Dressmaker (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Barfly (uncredited)
Edward Fielding
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Preacher's Wife (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard
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George Melford
Preacher (uncredited)
Juanita Moore
Dressed-up Freed Slave (uncredited)
Adrian Morris
Major Grail's Orderly (uncredited)
Clarence Muse
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George H. Reed
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Clinton Rosemond
Black Man on Bench (uncredited)
Elena Verdugo
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Billy Wayne
Soldier (uncredited)
Norman Willis
Union Corporal (uncredited)
Nathan Juran
Art Direction
Travis Banton
Costumer
Natalie Kalmus
Technical Advisor
Irving Cummings
Director
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
Lamar Trotti
Screenplay
Niven Busch
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