The Belle Starr Story

Mirabelle grows up in a family in which her father - after returning from the civil war - does not tolerate any dissent and everyone has to submit to his ‘whims’. He rapes a maid and demands her execution when she dares to report the offence. Mirabelle is horrified, frees the maid and manages to escape. On the run, she kills one of her pursuers and finally becomes the female outlaw ‘Belle Starr’. What reads like colportage in a western guise - it is! If you add to this the German dubbing, which is so flippant that it makes no sense, you might ask yourself at first glance: Why should I watch this film? Admittedly, ‘My Body for a Poker Game’ is more likely to appeal to cineastes with a sense of the marginal - but perhaps they are not the only ones who will be amused and amazed by this rediscovery.