Boxcar Bertha (1972)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Barbara Hershey | as | 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson | | David Carradine | as | 'Big' Bill Shelly | | Barry Primus | as | Rake Brown | | Bernie Casey | as | Von Morton | | John Carradine | as | H. Buckram Sartoris | | Victor Argo | as | McIver #1 | | David Osterhout | as | McIver #2 (as David R. Osterhout) | | Grahame Pratt | as | Emeric Pressburger | | 'Chicken' Holleman | as | M. Powell | | Harry Northup | as | Harvey Hall | | Ann Morell | as | Tillie Parr | | Marianne Dole | as | Mrs. Mailler | | Joe Reynolds | as | Joe Cox | | Michael Fitzgerald | as | Apple Peeler |
| | Crew list: | | Martin Scorsese (Director) | | Ben L. Reitman (Writer) | | Joyce Hooper Corrington (Writer) |
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Review
Based on a true story, '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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