http://www.moviemartyr.com/1972/boxcarbertha.htm
This is a very direct review of Boxcar Bertha. The reviewer addresses many of the obvious problems that haunt Boxcar Bertha. I suggest anyone viewing this blog to check out this site, it expresses many of the problems I have with this film, and with current Hollywood, where style overcomes a director's central job of bringing life out of the actors.
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Casey,
Here's a site that touches on what I was saying about a spate of similar films as "Boxcar Bertha" that came out in that same time period: http://www.moviemartyr.com/1972/boxcarbertha.htm
"The movie is a fairly obvious knockoff of Arthur Penn’s magnificent Bonnie and Clyde, and even after acknowledging its many debts to that landmark film (the hyper violent shootouts, the sexual frankness, and the kinetic editing), it doesn’t hold up too well. Consider that around the same time, Scorsese’s contemporaries were all making better road movies. When compared to Terrence Malick’s Badlands, Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us, and Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express, there’s no way that it can be thought of as better than any of them. Of course, many of this movie’s problems lie in the cookie-cutter script, which squanders most of the very real potential of a movie about Bertha Thompson’s life, and settles for something that often looks embarrassingly close to a feminist episode of TV’s The Dukes of Hazzard."
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