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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
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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...
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Before he did Mean Streets and raging Bull, Martin Scorsese directed this underrated Roger Corman version of Bonnie and Clyde with Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady, The Last Temptation of Christ) in one of her very first movie roles.
It is a slow and steady film, without the excitement of Bonnie & Clyde and a role...
(complete Boxcar Bertha review by The Movie Addict)
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(6/24/2007)