Boxcar Bertha
(1972)
★ 5.8 IMDb · 257 votes
Year: 1972
Runtime: 89 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Мартин Скорсезе
Cast: Барбара Херши, Дэвид Кэррадайн, Барри Праймус, Bernie Casey, Джон Кэрредин, Виктор Арго, David Osterhout, Гарри Нортап, Joe Reynolds, Marianne Dole
Plot
"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.
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.