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Boxcar Bertha

Directed by Martin Scorsese
R
1972    88mCrime, Drama,
6.054%33%
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 eventually sucked into a life of crime with him.
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Cast of Boxcar Bertha
  • Barbara HersheyBoxcar Bertha
  • David CarradineBig Bill Shelly
  • Barry PrimusRake Brown
  • Bernie CaseyVon Morton
  • John CarradineH. Buckram Sartoris
  • Victor ArgoMcIver #1
  • David OsterhoutMcIver #2
  • Harry NorthupHarvey Hall
  • Joe ReynoldsJoe Cox
  • Marianne DoleMrs. Mailler
  • Ann MorellTillie Parr
  • Martin ScorseseBrothel Client (uncredited)
  • Jerry CortezSheriff (uncredited)
  • Louie EliasBoxcar Tough (uncredited)
  • Gayne RescherBrothel Client (uncredited)
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