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Boxcar Bertha

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VA 4038
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VHS | N/A | Slipcase
90 mins (NTSC)
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)

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Additional Information
Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw.

Bertha Loved Lovin'...But There Was More Money in ROBBIN' TRAINS!

America in the 30's was a Free Country. Bertha was jes' a little bit free'er than most.


Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. Running afoul of anti-union forces, Bertha and Carradine are forced into a life of crime. Whereas Bonnie and Clyde robbed banks, Boxcar Bertha's specialty is trains. A story of this nature can only end in tragedy, and wait until you see Carradine's symbolic demise! For the record, there really was a Boxcar Bertha Thompson, and it is her autobiography, Sister of the Road, that serves as the basis for Joyce and John Corrington's screenplay.


Release Date: August 17, 1972

Distrib: American International

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