Boxcar Bertha

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.

Year

1972

Movie time

88 min

Directed by

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus

6.0/10

IMDB

52%

Rotten Tomatoes

61/100

Metacritic

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