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Montana Belle (1952)
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2 February 1953 (Sweden)
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In a fictionalized biography, Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton...
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(Complete credited cast)| Jane Russell | ... | Belle Starr | |
| George Brent | ... | Tom Bradfield | |
| Scott Brady | ... | Bob Dalton | |
| Forrest Tucker | ... | Mac | |
| Andy Devine | ... | Pete Bivins | |
| Jack Lambert | ... | Ringo | |
| John Litel | ... | Matt Towner | |
| Ray Teal | ... | Emmett Dalton | |
| Rory Mallinson | ... | Grat Dalton | |
| Holly Bane | ... | Ben Dalton | |
| Roy Barcroft | ... | Jim Clark | |
| Ned Davenport | ... | Bank clerk | |
| Dick Elliott | ... | Jeptha Rideout (banker) | |
| Gene Roth | ... | Marshal Ripple (as Eugene Roth) | |
| Stanley Andrews | ... | Marshal Combs |
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82 min
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Color (Trucolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Shot between late October and late November 1948, this film was intended to be issued by Republic. In April 1949, Howard Welsch, who had produced the movie for his company, Fidelity Pictures, sold the negative to RKO for $875,000, about $225,000 above the picture's cost. Finally, this Western obtained a Manhattan debut at the Palace Theatre on November 7, 1952.
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MY SWEETHEART'S THE MAN IN THE MOON
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Montana Belle which probably at best started out to be an average B western product from RKO got to Howard Hughes's attention because it starred his protégé Jane Russell. This make believe account of the famous female outlaw Belle Starr got cut and recut and edited down to a mess of a story if you're looking for coherency. The film was made in 1948 and released in 1952 and that's always bad news.
Like Jane's first feature, The Outlaw, certain western legends who never in real life met up with each other, have dealings in the Hollywood west. In The Outlaw, it's the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid story rewritten to have Doc Holiday's participation. In Montana Belle, Jane as Belle Starr is rescued by Bob Dalton played by Scott Brady. But later when she mistakes a doublecross she forms her own gang with Forrest Tucker and Jack Lambert as a most stereotypical Indian.
In the meantime another guy with his hormones in a tizzy over Jane's titanic weaponry is George Brent, gentleman gambler and owner of the largest liquor&gaming establishment in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He's going to reform Jane and separate her from her disreputable outlaw companions. Nice work if you can get it.
You can't say too much about the story, Howard Hughes muddled this one, the same as he muddled, The Outlaw, Jet Pilot, and My Forbidden Past. One thing he didn't do for which we can thank the Deity is that he didn't cut Jane's number, The Gilded Lily from the film. It's definitely the best thing about Montana Belle.
But over at Republic they were shooting westerns with all their B stars that had more coherent plots than you see here.