'Boxcar' 'Big' Bill Shelly, a rabble-rousing union man, meets Bertha Thompson, a vagrant lady in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early 1930s, and the two form a partnership to combat the corrupt railroad system. Based on anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman's pseudo-autobiography "Sister of the Road," published in 1937.
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'Boxcar' 'Big' Bill Shelly, a rabble-rousing union man, meets Bertha Thompson, a vagrant lady in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early 1930s, and the two form a partnership to combat the corrupt railroad system. Based on anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman's pseudo-autobiography "Sister of the Road," published in 1937.
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