Boxcar Bertha

film by Scorsese [1972]

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Boxcar Bertha (1972) is a film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Roger Corman. It is described as an exciting, though ultimately empty, story about train robbers causing trouble in the Depression-era South. The film stars Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, and Bernie Casey. Scorsese directed this film after working as an editor on concert films and a documentary about protests against the Vietnam War. This film was a precursor to his more acclaimed works like Mean Streets.1

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Martin Scorsese
Films of the 1970s: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York
…Corman invited him to direct Boxcar Bertha (1972). Scorsese made the most of the opportunity with an exciting if ultimately empty yarn about train robbers (Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, and Bernie Casey) wreaking havoc in the Depression-era South.
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…Corman invited him to direct Boxcar Bertha (1972). Scorsese made the most of the opportunity with an exciting if ultimately empty yarn about train robbers (Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, and Bernie Casey) wreaking havoc in the Depression-era South.
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