"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.

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

Credits

Martin ScorseseDirector

Barbara HersheyBoxcar Bertha

David CarradineBig Bill Shelly

Barry PrimusRake Brown

Bernie CaseyVon Morton