Boxcar Bertha
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- Genre: Movies • Crime • Drama • Romance
- Country: United States
- Premier: 14 Jun 1972 (USA)
- Director:Martin Scorsese
- WriterBen L. Reitman, Joyce Hooper Corrington, John William Corrington
- Stars:Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey, John Carradine, Victor Argo
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Original Title:
Boxcar Bertha
Tagline: Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw.
Storyline
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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