Boxcar Bertha

Year: 1972

Country: USA

Tagline: Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw.  »

Plot: 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.The film follows Bertha Thompson and Bill Shelly, who are two train robbers and lovers. When Bertha gets involved in a murder case during the time in South American, the two have to start their fugitive days.

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