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In 2024, Martin Scorsese declared "Roger Corman gave me my start in movies ... If I hadn't worked with Roger, I wouldn't have known how to make Mean Streets or, when it comes right down to it, any of the pictures that followed."

With this Corman-produced slice of Bonnie and Clyde-sploitation, the young Scorsese directed his second feature, learning how to work within the framework of low budget and genre cinema expectations. The film is a loose adaptation of the book 'Sister of the Road' and follows the young 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey) as she traverses the Depression-era South. After she falls in love with union organiser Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine), the two find themselves part of a small posse robbing trains and banks, angering a powerful railway magnet. Brimming with Corman-prescribed sex and violence, the film also showcases early inklings of the themes and images that would come to define Scorsese's cinema over the ensuing decades.

R18+ | High level violence