Boxcar Bertha
Boxcar Bertha
“ Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw. ”
CINEMA1972-06-14
DIGITAL2016-08-09
RegionUS
Runtime89 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A low-budget crime road movie that already reveals Scorsese's early interest in outsiders, violence, and the American underclass.”
Storyline
"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.
DIRECTOR / DirectorTOPIC
Martin Scorsese
KEYWORDS
depressionbased on novel or booklabor organizer
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