Boxcar bertha thompson biography of christopher

film directed by Martin Scorsese

Boxcar Bertha is a American romanticcrime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H.

Corrington and John William Corrington.^[2] 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.^[3] It was Scorsese's second feature film.

Boxcar bertha thompson biography of christopher

Plot

Boxcar Bertha Thompson, a poor southern girl, is orphaned when her father's crop-dusting airplane crashes. The Great Depression hits, and she soon takes to freighthopping. A few years later, she meets Big Bill Shelly, a union organizer, and they become lovers.

Together with Rake Brown, a gambler, and Von Morton, who worked for Bertha's father, they accidentally start train and bank robberies. Eventually, they face off against the railway boss H. Buckram Sartoris in the American South.

The group becomes notorious fugitives o