Boxcar Bertha
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Actor: Bernie Casey, David Carradine, John Carradine, Marianne Dole, Victor ArgoPrimary Contributor: David Carradine
Primary Contributor: Barbara Hershey
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Boxcar Bertha
Movie Review: Early Scorsese
Summary: 3 Stars
This early effort by Martin Scorsese for low-budget legend Roger Corman manages to sustain interest, but it's only a glimmer of the genius to come. Bertha (Barbara Hershey) hooks up with labor agitator Big Bill Shelley (David Carradine); with their gang (Bernie Casey and Barry Primus) they pull off a number of robberies and find themselves on the run right up until the suitably bloody climax. This will be of interest to Scorsese completists and lovers of exploitative B-movies; others need not bother.
Summary of Boxcar Bertha
Martin Scorsese was just another college film school grad with a student feature under his belt when producer Roger Corman tapped him to direct AIP's entry in the Bonnie and Clyde craze. Barbara Hershey stars as the real-life depression era orphan of the title, a charming, cheeky young woman who tramped the Deep South with a union organizer (David Carradine), a dandified New York con man (Barry Primus), and a blues-playing mechanic (Bernie Casey), turning her motley band into train-robbing outlaws. Scorsese was anxious to show his chops on a real Hollywood feature and does so admirably (if impersonally) with rough-and-ready style. If the rebellious spirit and social message behind the sex and violence is more Corman than Scorsese, the film references ("Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," Bertha tells a customer while working at a cathouse) and often inventive direction are pure Scorsese. --Sean AxmakerAction & Adventure DVD Video
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