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Boxcar Bertha - Original Trailer 1972

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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.

Barbara Hershey - Bertha
David Carradine - Bill Shelley
Barry Primus - Rake Brown
Bernie Casey - Von Morton
John Carradine - H. Buckram Sartoris
Victor Argo - McIver Brother
Marianne Dole - Mrs. Mailer
"Chicken" Holleman - Michael Powell
Ann Morell - Tillie
Harry Northrup - Harvey Hall
David R. Osterhout - Mclver Brother
Grahame Pratt - Emeric Pressburger
Gayne Rescher - Brothel Client [uncredited]
Joe Reynolds - Joe Dreft
Martin Scorsese - Brothel Client

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