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In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Creator/BarbaraHershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (Creator/DavidCarradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Creator/BarryPrimus), a roving gambler and ConMan. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of RailroadBaron Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
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In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Creator/BarbaraHershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (Creator/DavidCarradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Creator/BarryPrimus), a roving gambler and ConMan. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), (Creator/BernieCasey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of RailroadBaron Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
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In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Creator/BarbaraHershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (Creator/DavidCarradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Barry Primus), (Creator/BarryPrimus), a roving gambler and ConMan. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of RailroadBaron Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
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In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey), (Creator/BarbaraHershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (Creator/DavidCarradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Barry Primus), a roving gambler and ConMan. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of RailroadBaron Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
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* WholePlotReference: Besides the obvious similarities to ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', it also can be taken as an allusion to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', with Bertha as Dorothy, Bill as the Scarecrow, Von as the Tin Woodsman, and Rake as the Cowardly Lion.
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* WholePlotReference: Besides the obvious similarities to ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', it also can be taken as an allusion to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', with Bertha as Dorothy, Bill as the Scarecrow, Von as the Tin Woodsman, and Rake as the Cowardly Lion.Lion.
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In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine), (Creator/DavidCarradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Barry Primus), a roving gambler and con man. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of RailroadBaron Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted with Von. Instead [[spoiler:Rake is the first to get killed]].
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In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Barry Primus), a roving gambler and con man. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of railroad chief RailroadBaron Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
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''Boxcar Bertha'' is a 1972 crime drama produced by Creator/RogerCorman and directed by Creator/MartinScorsese.
In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Barry Primus), a roving gambler and con man. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of railroad chief Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
Scorsese's second feature film, and his first for a Hollywood studio, a ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'' knockoff seems like a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for him. But he considers it an important moment in his career, since doing an exploitation film under the wing of Corman gave him a chance to perfect the filmmaking techniques he would later use on more personal films. It was also on the set of this film that Barbara Hershey introduced him to the Nikos Kazantzakis novel ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist''.
!!This film contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Bertha proves to be quite handy with a gun.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The basis of Bertha's attraction to Bill.
* AnachronismStew: Scorsese seems like he was trying to avoid a PresentDayPast feel, but there's definitely a CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority vibe that dates it to the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] era. Also, while she gives a good performance, Barbara Hershey at times looks more like a 1972-vintage fashion model than a woman of TheGreatDepression. On the other hand, Creator/JohnCarradine's character comes across more like a Victorian Era tycoon than someone from the 20th century.
* AntiHero: As you'd expect from this type of film, the leads are sympathetic despite being criminals.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: It's an adaptation of the 1937 book ''Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha'', and the opening of the film states that it's based on the RealLife story of Bertha Thompson. In fact, Bertha Thompson didn't exist, and the book was a fictional work by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Reitman Ben Reitman]], a longtime doctor and political activist, and Bertha was a composite of several women he knew.
* BigApplesauce: Rake is from New York and has a thick accent, which he tries to hide to not arouse suspicion from the Southerners he deals with.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted with Von. Instead [[spoiler:Rake is the first to get killed]].
* ChekhovsHobby: Von's harmonica music [[spoiler:allows Bertha to find him again toward the end of the film]].
* CreatorInJoke: The closing credits list "Chicken Holleman" as "[[Creator/MichaelPowell M. Powell]]" and "Grahame Pratt" as "Emeric Pressburger". No such characters are in the film; it's just Scorsese doing a ShoutOut to his favorite filmmaking team.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/MartinScorsese as Bertha's john at the brothel who offers her extra money to spend the night with her.
* {{Hobos}}: The gang meets plenty of them on their travels.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Bertha fits this type when she starts working at the brothel.
* JustLikeRobinHood: How Bill sees the robberies.
* MsFanservice: It's a Creator/RogerCorman film from TheSeventies with a gorgeous lead actress, so, yes, Bertha gets nude scenes.
* NoEnding: Bertha [[spoiler:is horrified by Bill's death, and chases the train he's been nailed to]].
* NonIndicativeName: Bertha is petite and waifish, rather than the rotund type usually associated with that name.
* OutlawCouple: Bertha and Bill, but also Bertha and Rake when they traveled together.
* ScaryBlackMan: Von is more of an AffablyEvil type, but when he needs to, he can get ''vicious''.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Corman intended it as a follow-up to his earlier ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mama Bloody Mama]]''.
* VideoCredits: Done at the start of the film, like something out of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.
* WholePlotReference: Besides the obvious similarities to ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', it also can be taken as an allusion to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', with Bertha as Dorothy, Bill as the Scarecrow, Von as the Tin Woodsman, and Rake as the Cowardly Lion.
''Boxcar Bertha'' is a 1972 crime drama produced by Creator/RogerCorman and directed by Creator/MartinScorsese.
In Arkansas, during TheGreatDepression, Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey), just barely into adulthood, is forced to leave home after her father dies in a tragic accident. She meets Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine), a labor organizer who also rides the rails. They fall in love but have to part. In her wanderings, Bertha hooks up with Rake Brown (Barry Primus), a roving gambler and con man. When Bertha and Rake meet up with Bill by chance, the trio bands together with another drifter, Von Morton (Bernie Casey), to commit a string of train robberies, which Bill views as a political statement against capitalist corruption, but also provides them money at a time when few people had it. Once their crimes draw the attention of railroad chief Sartoris (Creator/JohnCarradine), Bertha is forced to go on the run again, and ends up working in TheOldestProfession. But she'll get one more chance to be with Bill.
Scorsese's second feature film, and his first for a Hollywood studio, a ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'' knockoff seems like a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for him. But he considers it an important moment in his career, since doing an exploitation film under the wing of Corman gave him a chance to perfect the filmmaking techniques he would later use on more personal films. It was also on the set of this film that Barbara Hershey introduced him to the Nikos Kazantzakis novel ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist''.
!!This film contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Bertha proves to be quite handy with a gun.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The basis of Bertha's attraction to Bill.
* AnachronismStew: Scorsese seems like he was trying to avoid a PresentDayPast feel, but there's definitely a CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority vibe that dates it to the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] era. Also, while she gives a good performance, Barbara Hershey at times looks more like a 1972-vintage fashion model than a woman of TheGreatDepression. On the other hand, Creator/JohnCarradine's character comes across more like a Victorian Era tycoon than someone from the 20th century.
* AntiHero: As you'd expect from this type of film, the leads are sympathetic despite being criminals.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: It's an adaptation of the 1937 book ''Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha'', and the opening of the film states that it's based on the RealLife story of Bertha Thompson. In fact, Bertha Thompson didn't exist, and the book was a fictional work by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Reitman Ben Reitman]], a longtime doctor and political activist, and Bertha was a composite of several women he knew.
* BigApplesauce: Rake is from New York and has a thick accent, which he tries to hide to not arouse suspicion from the Southerners he deals with.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted with Von. Instead [[spoiler:Rake is the first to get killed]].
* ChekhovsHobby: Von's harmonica music [[spoiler:allows Bertha to find him again toward the end of the film]].
* CreatorInJoke: The closing credits list "Chicken Holleman" as "[[Creator/MichaelPowell M. Powell]]" and "Grahame Pratt" as "Emeric Pressburger". No such characters are in the film; it's just Scorsese doing a ShoutOut to his favorite filmmaking team.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/MartinScorsese as Bertha's john at the brothel who offers her extra money to spend the night with her.
* {{Hobos}}: The gang meets plenty of them on their travels.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Bertha fits this type when she starts working at the brothel.
* JustLikeRobinHood: How Bill sees the robberies.
* MsFanservice: It's a Creator/RogerCorman film from TheSeventies with a gorgeous lead actress, so, yes, Bertha gets nude scenes.
* NoEnding: Bertha [[spoiler:is horrified by Bill's death, and chases the train he's been nailed to]].
* NonIndicativeName: Bertha is petite and waifish, rather than the rotund type usually associated with that name.
* OutlawCouple: Bertha and Bill, but also Bertha and Rake when they traveled together.
* ScaryBlackMan: Von is more of an AffablyEvil type, but when he needs to, he can get ''vicious''.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Corman intended it as a follow-up to his earlier ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mama Bloody Mama]]''.
* VideoCredits: Done at the start of the film, like something out of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.
* WholePlotReference: Besides the obvious similarities to ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', it also can be taken as an allusion to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', with Bertha as Dorothy, Bill as the Scarecrow, Von as the Tin Woodsman, and Rake as the Cowardly Lion.
