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Directed by. Martin Scorsese. "Boxcar Bertha" is a weirdly interesting movie and not really the sleazy exploitation film the ads promise. It finds its inspiration in the exploits of Boxcar Bertha Thompson, an outlaw folk hero who operated in Arkansas during the Depression. I am not sure whether she was called "Boxcar" because of the way she was ...
Feb 12, 2008 · During the Depression, a poor Arkansas girl named Bertha (Barbara Hershey) is orphaned after her father is killed in a crop-dusting accident. Soon afterwards she meets and falls in love with union activist Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine) and takes to the road, riding the rails and becoming involved with a gang of robbers led by New York gambler Rake Brown (Barry Primus).
- Martin Scorsese, Paul Rapp, Russ Vreeland
- Barbara Hershey
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment and she is ...
Martin Scorsese. Director. John William Corrington. Screenplay. Joyce Hooper Corrington. Screenplay. "Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
Produced by Roger Corman and loosely based on Ben Reitman’s Sister of the Road, Martin Scorsese’s Boxcar Bertha (1972) is his take on a traditional Western. There are bandits and brothels, but there are also Yankees and biblical metaphors. It traffics in a loose genre that I’d call ‘70s-does-30s, alongside films like The Sting (1973) and The Last Tycoon (1976). Like the interwar period ...
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900*1497 px. 1544*2412 px. Gallery of 21 movie poster and cover images for Boxcar Bertha (1972). Synopsis: "Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
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