Thieves Like Us is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
Bowie (Carradine), a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw (John Schuck) and T-Dub (Bert Remsen) escape...
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Thieves Like Us is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
Bowie (Carradine), a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw (John Schuck) and T-Dub (Bert Remsen) escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks.
Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie (Duvall). They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime.
Chicamaw is eventually recaptured and T-Dub is killed while waiting in his car for his wife to come out. Bowie poses as a sheriff's deputy to extract Chickamaw from jail. But he quickly becomes...
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