5.4 Score

1972 • 1h 29min • R • Crime, Drama

Boxcar Bertha

"Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw."

"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.

IMDb 6.0

RT 57%

MC 61

Director

Martin Scorsese

Writers

Joyce Hooper Corrington

John William Corrington

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Barbara Hershey

Boxcar Bertha

David Carradine

Big Bill Shelly

Barry Primus

Rake Brown

Bernie Casey

Von Morton

John Carradine

H. Buckram Sartoris

Victor Argo

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David Osterhout

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Harry Northup

Harvey Hall

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Barbara Hershey Boxcar Bertha

David Carradine Big Bill Shelly

Barry Primus Rake Brown

Bernie Casey Von Morton

John Carradine H. Buckram Sartoris

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