Boxcar Bertha/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< Boxcar Bertha
- According to both David Carradine and Barbara Hershey, their sex scene was not faked.
- The train sequences were shot first and they took about a week. This was done to get the most complicated element of the production, working with a moving train, out of the way first.
- Director Cameo: [Martin Scorsese] as a john who is just finishing dressing himself when he asks Bertha if he can spend the night.
- This was Martin Scorsese's first feature film. He was given $600,000 and told to make an exploitation film.
- Martin Scorsese personally drew about 500 storyboards for this film
- After he finished this film, Martin Scorsese screened the film for John Cassavetes. Cassavetes, after seeing this film, hugged Scorsese and said, "Martin, you just spent a year of your life making shit!" He urged him to make a personal film, and the result was Mean Streets (1973).
- Schedule for the movie was 24 days (according to director Martin Scorsese's commentary for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)).
