Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
"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.
- depression
- based on novel or book
- labor organizer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Barbara Hershey
Boxcar Bertha
David Carradine
Big Bill Shelly
Barry Primus
Rake Brown
Bernie Casey
Von Morton
- John Carradine — H. Buckram Sartoris
- Victor Argo — McIver #1
- David Osterhout — McIver #2
- Harry Northup — Harvey Hall
- Joe Reynolds — Joe Cox
- Marianne Dole — Mrs. Mailler
- Ann Morell — Tillie Parr
- Martin Scorsese — Brothel Client (uncredited)
- Jerry Cortez — Sheriff (uncredited)
- Louie Elias — Boxcar Tough (uncredited)
- Gayne Rescher — Brothel Client (uncredited)
- Directed
- Martin Scorsese
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 257 ratings
- Studio
- American International Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
