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Boxcar Bertha

Boxcar Bertha (1972)

Crime, Drama, Romantic | United States

Director: Martin Scorsese

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Rating: 6.0/10

User rating: 8.3/10
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SYNOPSIS

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.

Actors

Writer: Ben L. Reitman, Joyce Hooper Corrington

Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Julie Corman

RUNTIME: 88 min

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