Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

weezeralfalfa First, a little historical background: Belle Starr did have a daughter. Originally named Rosie Reed, she later changed it to Pearl Starr. Unlike her mother, she didn't ride with the wolves, so to speak. Mostly, she became a prostitute, later owning several bordellos and other businesses. Evidently, she was a good business woman. In this film, she's called Rose and is played by Ruth Roman. For a brief period, she rides with the remnants of her mother's gang, after her mother's death. This film followed the 1941 film "Belle Starr", with leads Randolph Scott, and a young Gene Tierney. That was filmed in color, with the present one in B&W. ....... Rose has 2 sometimes suitors in George Montgomery, as Marshal Tom Jackson, and very tall Rod Cameron, as Bob 'Bitter Creek' Yauntis: a holdover from Belle's gang, who becomes the new leader of the small gang, upon Belle's death. The overriding question for Rose is : who killed her mother(It's never been agreed who killed the real Belle Starr). Bob and sidekick Yuma were the last members of her gang known to have been in her house, where she and Uncle Jim were shot, said to be found dead by Marshal Tom and his crew, who arrived not long after Bob and Yuma departed. Tom's bunch buried the two(a mighty quick decision), and burned her house, which didn't help Tom's plea that he didn't do the killing. The audience knows who killed Belle, as they saw the shooting. Belle was angry with Bob and Yuma because they had gone over to Antioch and killed the marshal. She said she would turn them over to the new marshal(Tom) for trial and punishment(probable hanging). Hence, Bob shot her to prevent this. Near the end of the film, a mortally wounded Yuma confesses to Rose that he saw Bob shoot her mother, something Rose doesn't believe at first. But, she never finds out why he killed her......This revelation causes a complete change in Rose's attitude toward Tom, whom she had assumed was the killer. Meanwhile, Tom has been chasing Bob and his 2 remaining gang members:Brone and Slim. With remarkable accuracy, while riding his horse, he shoots down the latter 2 , then mortally wounds Bob, who also falls off his horse. Bob, on the sneak, nearly kills Tom, wounding him in the thigh before dropping over dead. His last words were "You're wrong about one thing, Marshal. You'll never hang me". Wounded in both his shoulder and thigh, Tom initially acts hostile when Rose appears. But, she melts his icy reception with the news that she now regards Bob as her mother's murderer. Tom says he will have to arrest her and she will spend some time in jail. She expected that, and asks if he will wait for her. After a moment's reflection, he says "Yes", and they ride off together........The director was Lesley Selander, who had an extensive resume of westerns directed, albeit that most were B westerns. This film had the feel of something between an A and B film. It had an A running time of nearly 11/2 hours, but the B&W cinematography, and certain cheap performances made it feel more like a B picture. They must have been using black powder cartridges, there was so much smoke associated with firing their weapons! See it at YouTube.

bkoganbing If George Montgomery has his way they'll be a person in the law enforcement community marrying into Belle Starr's family. Along during the action in Belle Starr's Daughter he takes a fancy to Ruth Roman. But Roman can't see him because she holds him responsible for the death of her mother played briefly by Isabell Jewell. There's a truce between the law and the outlaw. The former marshal of Antioch says if the outlaws stay clear of Antioch he'll not pursue them into their sanctuary. But one night one of those outlaws Rod Cameron murders the marshal. He then murders Jewell and her confidante Kenneth MacDonald. And then he tells Roman that it was Montgomery's posse that did the dirty deed. So Montgomery will certainly have a lot to overcome.Some good performances by players used to being home on the range compensate for a story that has quite a few holes in it. Of course this has nothing to do with the real Belle Starr any more than 20th Century Fox's big budget oater that starred Gene Tierney and Randolph Scott had to do with her. But imagine the outlaw queen having a law enforcement official as a son-in-law?

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) Whoever lived through the old westerns will remember how we were always looking forwards to break the clichés, to see something different. The movies used to flirt with us specially in the trailers, by making the heroes seem to be bad. But there was always a catch, and at the end all would go back to the standard plot. Perhaps this explains why I felt thrilled seeing the pretty Ruth Roman being a bandit and at a certain point wearing the handkerchief mask. Whoever would not recognize her without the mask would have to be blind! But it was charming, and worth it. I am sure that was part of the trailer. And what about Rod Cameron as the bad guy? That was a great idea and he gives the best performance of all his films that I have seen. I have a certain difficulty to accept George Montgomery's hairstyle popular in the fifties, but awkward in our present days, but he was an OK actor and I always enjoyed his films, specially this one. Belle Starr's daughter is an amazingly well done unpretentious western directed by the efficient Lesley Selander

Mozjoukine Belle Starr's Daughter shows the team trying to ease out of the then doomed cowboy B movie market - three sort of stars, reasonable production values and a plot with some attempt at resonance and shading of the characters.Cameron proved surprisingly effective as the bad guy. He did a similar turn in a Hitchcock TV episode and the two can be considered his best work. Wally Ford is always good value and the rest get by, with Montgomery suitable as a straight arrow law man and Roman young and appealing. Isabel Jewel is a surprise, after all her dewy innocent parts of the thirties and the piece is strong on welcome character faces - Kemper, Lambert, McDonald and the rest.The action staging is excellent and the setting adequate, even though most of the scenes are shadowless over lit. Nice touches like the menacing night "This street was full of horses" or the final "I'm hit too." Lesley Seylander proved one of the few of the B movie directors able to deliver more ambitious work.