{"id":980807,"date":"2025-10-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980807"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:47:50","slug":"martin-scorsese-life-changing-bad-movie-boxcar-bertha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/martin-scorsese-life-changing-bad-movie-boxcar-bertha\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Life-Changing Bad Movie is Pretty Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/apple-tv+\/\">Apple TV<\/a> documentary series <em>Mr. Scorsese<\/em> contains many wonderful anecdotes and insights into the legendary filmmaker&#8217;s history. Unsurprisingly but nonetheless refreshingly, we&#8217;re reminded that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/martin-scorsese\/\">Martin Scorsese<\/a> didn&#8217;t arrive fully-formed, making masterpieces like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/taxi-driver\/\">Taxi Driver<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/martin-scorsese-right-the-age-of-innocence-most-violent-movie\/\">The Age of Innocence<\/a><\/em> right away. Rather, he had to struggle for a bit and experience his share of ups and downs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is often the case with biographies about the director, <em>Mr. Scorsese<\/em> locates one of those downs early in his career. Between his feature debut <em>Who&#8217;s That Knocking at My Door<\/em> and his breakout <em>Mean Streets<\/em> (his first collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/robert-de-niro\/\">Robert De Niro<\/a>), Scorsese agreed to make a low-budget picture for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/roger-corman\/\">Roger Corman<\/a>, king of the fast and cheap feature, called<em> Boxcar Bertha<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Mr. Scorsese<\/em> and other sources, <em>Boxcar Bertha<\/em> was a mistake, a deviation on Scorsese&#8217;s development. And, like most biographies, <em>Mr. Scorsese <\/em>overlooks the fact that <em>Boxcar Bertha<\/em> is actually pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Boxcar Bertha <\/em>stars Barbara Hershey as Bertha Thompson, a young woman who travels across Depression-era America after the death of her father, a crop-duster pilot. Along the way, Bertha falls for anarchist labor leader Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine) and, with gambler Rake Brown (Barry Primus) and her father&#8217;s former employee Van Morton (Bernie Casey), begins robbing people. The group runs afoul of Pinkertons, the police, and especially, railroad magnate H. Buckram Sartoris (John Carradine, father of David).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although <em>Boxcar Bertha<\/em> loosely adapts the 1937 book <em>Sister of the Road<\/em> by anarchist Ben Reitman, its true inspiration is <em>Bonnie and Clyde<\/em>, the 1967 Arthur Penn movie that kicked off the New Hollywood movement. Corman made his name by making cheap knockoffs of more popular films, and <em>Boxcar Bertha<\/em> is no exception, trying to capture the spirit of the times and the box office returns it could generate. Of course, Corman was also an incredible judge of talent, giving early shots to not just Scorsese, but also Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to that eye for talent, Corman produced cheap knock-offs could often be very good, as demonstrated by <em>Boxcar Bertha<\/em>. Scorsese gets incredible performances out of his cast, especially Hershey, whom he would later cast as Mary Magdalene in his passion project <em>The Last Temptation of Christ<\/em>. 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