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Boxcar Bertha

Title
Boxcar Bertha (2024)
Boxcar Bertha
Year
2024
Catalog
Genre
IMDB
Rating
6 from 10 with total 113 votes
Premiere
1972-06-14
Runtime
88 minutes
Description
\'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 1937 pseudo-autobiography of fictional character Bertha Thompson, written by anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman.
Cast

Barbara Hershey character Boxcar Bertha

David Carradine character Big Bill Shelly

Barry Primus character Rake Brown

Bernie Casey character Von Morton

John Carradine character H. Buckram Sartoris

Victor Argo character McIver #1

David Osterhout character McIver #2

Harry Northup character Harvey Hall

Joe Reynolds character Joe Cox

Marianne Dole character Mrs. Mailler

Ann Morell character Tillie Parr

Martin Scorsese character Brothel Client (uncredited)