Boxcar Bertha
Directed by Martin ScorseseR
1972 88m[Crime](/on-demand/category/crime), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)6.057%33%5.8
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.
