The Belle Starr Story [SEP] director
The Belle Starr Story
The Belle Starr Story/Il mio corpo per un poker is a 1968 Italian made episodic "Bonnie and Clyde" type spaghetti western co-written and co-directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Elsa Martinelli who also sings the title song. It is the only spaghetti western directed by a woman and one of the few which stars a woman in the title role. Wertmüller replaced after a few days Piero Cristofani, who was at his directorial debut.
Cast.
- Elsa Martinelli - Belle
To date, three featue films have been made from his work: The Last Good Time, in 1995, adapted from his novel of that title by Bob Balaban; Endangered Species, in 2017, six Bausch stories adapted by the French Director Gilles Bourdos (Renoir; Afterwards, Inquietudes); and Peace, adapted by Robert David Port, from Bausch’s novel by that name. A fourth film is in process, adapted by Julie Lipson, of the Bausch story “The Man Who Knew Belle Starr.”
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