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Boxcar Bertha(Movie, 1972)

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| 1h 28min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
Boxcar BerthaRating: 2.9/5 (with 8686 votes)
Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington. Made on a low budget, the film is a loose adaptation of Sister of the Road, a pseudo-autobiographical account of the fictional character Bertha Thompson. It was Scorsese's second feature film. ()
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About Boxcar Bertha

"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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: Kansas
Plays in: Arkansas
Based on: "Sister of the Road" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 16 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 06/14/1972
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Roger Corman
Film Editor: Buzz Feitshans
Director of Photography: John M. Stephens
Composer: Gib Guilbeau
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Берта, по прякор "Товарния вагон""
"Togrøverne fra Arkansas"
"El tren de Bertha"
Budget: 600,000 USD

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