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Boxcar Bertha

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Starring Barbara Hershey, David Carradine

Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw.

"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.