{"id":15229,"date":"2022-09-22T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15229"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:15:22","slug":"boxcar-bertha-1972-martin-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15229","title":{"rendered":"Boxcar Bertha (1972, Martin Scorsese)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hershey, who also appears in two (but not all) of Scorsese&#8217;s movies where someone gets crucified, sees her cropduster daddy die then hits the Depression-era road.  She and family friend Von (Bernie Casey of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6754\">The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/a><\/em>, <em>In the Mouth of Madness<\/em>) and railworker Bill (David Carradine, whose dad plays a railroad bigwig) meet up in various places and get into hijinks.  Good performances, especially in the second half, and some sharp editing, but this is more a Roger Corman period adventure story than anything else.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bertha caught between two Carradines:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bertha3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The cops and strikebreakers in this are real pieces of shit.  She meets a moneyman called Rake, she shoots a guy who calls everyone he dislikes a red, and she jailbreaks her friends&#8230; there&#8217;s a nice classic car wreck off a cliff, another gets smashed by a train, there are some shotgun murders, and Bertha and friends become professional bank robbers.  She&#8217;s freed from a whorehouse by Von, but both guys finally get busted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Von taking care of business:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bertha2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Strikebreaker on the left would become a Scorsese regular, mustache guy would disappear.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bertha1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hershey, who also appears in two (but not all) of Scorsese&#8217;s movies where someone gets crucified, sees her cropduster daddy die then hits the Depression-era road. She and family friend Von (Bernie Casey of The Man Who Fell to Earth, In the Mouth of Madness) and railworker Bill (David Carradine, whose dad plays a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,2311,1914,636,46,294],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-david-carradine","tag-great-depression","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-roger-corman","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15247,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions\/15247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}