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"Pendant la Grande Dépression des années 30. Suite à la mort de son père, la jeune Bertha Thompson sombre dans le vagabondage. Son destin bascule losqu'elle croise le chemin du syndicaliste Big Bill Shelley. Un Robin des Bois des chemins de fer, qui lui apprend se sens de la révolte. Très vite, Bill et Bertha deviennet les pilleurs de trains les plus célèbres de tout le Sud des Etats-Unis."
"Set in the 1930's, a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company. Martin Scorsese's second feature was made for budget-conscious Roger Corman."@en
"A no-holds barred exploration of the despair and hope of the 1930's."
"Set in the 1930's, a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company."@en
"Set in the 1930's, a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company."
"Based on characters contained in Sister of the road, the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha as told to Ben L. Reitman. Set in the 1930's during the depression years."@en
"Exploration of the despair and hope of the 1930's. Bertha, a spirited young farm girl who loses faith in the society, goes hopping boxcars from town to town. When she meets Bill Shelley, Bertha finds love and a new cause: unionization. They become train robbers and are being pursued by the railroad police."
""Bertha is left on her own, after her father dies in [an] aeroplane accident, and links up with controversial leader of the union Big Bill [Shelly] in depression-era America. On the run from McCarthy-ite witch-hunters who think [Shelly] is a 'red, ' they unwillingly become involved in underground crime, escape from jail, and ride boxcars on freight trains until the all-powerful railroad company [catches] up with [Shelly] and [takes] their revenge"--Internet movie database summary by David Gibson, July 14, 2003."@en
"Set in the Depression era, Boxcar Bertha is a spirited young farm girl who joins a gang of train robbers led by Big Bill Shelley, Together they stage a series of bold train robberies with the country's toughest railroad police hot on their trail."@en
"Based on the true story of small-time crook and free spirit Bertha, who with 'Robin Hood of the rails' Big Bill Shelly was a wanted train robber in the South."