Every Martin Scorsese Film Ranked Worst To Best

26. Boxcar Bertha (1972)

Scorsese's second feature film is in many respects his own riff on Bonnie and Clyde, which came out five years earlier and kickstarted the New Hollywood movement.

Here, David Carradine and Barbara Hershey star as Bill Shelly and Bertha Thompson, train robbers who become fugitives after being implicated in a murder.

Boxcar Bertha has all the violence and rebellion of Scorsese's later pictures, but less of the more subtle stylings that would make even his darkest films easier to digest.

Hershey in particular shines throughout, in a role that is as endearing as it is twisted, but all told Boxcar Bertha lacks the grace and meaning of Scorsese's future projects, and ends up as little more than another cheap, predictable and violent '70s crime piece - albeit a decently enjoyable one.

The fact this was produced by Roger Corman tells you exactly what kind of experience you're in for.