Belle Starr’s Daughter ** (1948, Ruth Roman, George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 11,709

Director Lesley Selander’s 1948 Western film Belle Starr’s Daughter is a modest, totally fabricated and synthetic sequel to the 1941 Western Belle Starr, with Gene Tierney.

This time Ruth Roman lands her first starring part in the title role of Belle Starr’s daughter, Cimarron Rose, who is gunning for Marshal Tom Jackson (George Montgomery), the lawman she erroneously thinks put paid to her notorious outlaw mom.

Belle Starr’s Daughter is mostly entertaining, thanks in part to Roman and Montgomery, but it is hollow and sentimental at the finish.

The cast are Ruth Roman, George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Wallace Ford, Charles Kemper, Isabel Jewell, J Farrell MacDonald, Kenneth MacDonald, Chris-Pin Martin, William Phipps, William Perrott, William Ruhl, Edith King, Jack Lambert, and Fred Libby.

It is made by Alson Productions, aka Edward L Alperson Productions, and released on 31 December 1948 by 20th Century Fox.

Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman; December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999) is remembered for the Western film Harmony Trail (1944), the serial film Jungle Queen (1945), the title role of Belle Starr’s Daughter (1948), The Window (1949), Champion (1949), 5 Steps to Danger (1956) and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951). She was foisted on Hitchcock as a Warner Bros contract player, and he didn’t want her, but ironically it is the film she is best remembered for.

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