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UNITED STATES · 1972

Boxcar Bertha

Martin Scorsese
New Hollywood labor activism railroad corruption depression era outlaw romance class struggle
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Synopsis

"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.

Year1972
CountryUnited States
DirectorMartin Scorsese
MovementNew Hollywood
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