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1972    89mCrime, Drama
6.057%33%5.8
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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.
Directed by Martin Scorsese

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  • Barbara HersheyBoxcar Bertha
  • David CarradineBig Bill Shelly
  • Barry PrimusRake Brown
  • Bernie CaseyVon Morton
  • John CarradineH. Buckram Sartoris
  • Victor ArgoMcIver #1
  • David OsterhoutMcIver #2
  • Harry NorthupHarvey Hall
  • Joe ReynoldsJoe Cox
  • Marianne DoleMrs. Mailler
  • Ann MorellTillie Parr
  • Martin ScorseseBrothel Client (uncredited) / Director / Editor
  • Jerry CortezSheriff (uncredited)
  • Louie EliasBoxcar Tough (uncredited)
  • Gayne RescherBrothel Client (uncredited)
  • Joyce Hooper CorringtonScreenplay
  • John William CorringtonScreenplay
  • Roger CormanProducer
  • Samuel Z. ArkoffExecutive Producer
  • James H. NicholsonExecutive Producer
  • BigFudge1236d ago
    Marty puttin in a few more reps before Mean Streets.

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