Boxcar Bertha

August, 1972

Boxcar BerthaIf you got the idea from Bonnie and Clyde that the life of an outlaw in the Thirties was a rip-roaring game of cops and robbers, the just-released film Boxcar Bertha, starring Barbara Hershey and David Carradine, should set you straight. The story of a legendary woman train heister who terrorized the South Central United States, Bertha depicts the bitter struggle between labor organizers and the railroad companies that oppressed employees with threats of lockouts and withheld wages....