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Boxcar Bertha

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

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.

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Info about Boxcar Bertha

Studio(s): American International Pictures

Originally Released: United States, Jun 14, 1972

Production Country: United States

Budget: $600,000.00

Genres:Crime, Drama, Romance