- Thieves Like Us (film)
Infobox_Film
name = Thieves Like Us
imdb_id = 0072274
writer =Edward Anderson (novel)Joan Tewkesbury Calder Willingham Robert Altman
starring =Keith Carradine Shelley Duvall John Schuck Bert Remsen Louise Fletcher Tom Skerritt
director =Robert Altman
producer =Robert Altman
released =February 11 ,1974
runtime = 123 minutes
language =English
budget ="Thieves Like Us" is a 1974 film directed by
Robert Altman and starringKeith Carradine andShelley Duvall . The film was based on the novel "Thieves Like Us" byEdward Anderson . The novel is also the source material for the1949 filmThey Live by Night , directed byNicholas Ray . As well as starring well known actors and actresses of the era such asKeith Carradine andShelley Duvall , the film features a large number of small town people as extras, including Lloyd Jones, an actual Mississippi State Highway Patrolman.Fact|date=May 2008"Thieves Like Us" differs from "They Live By Night" by being filmed largely on location in Mississippi, while the earlier movie was filmed in a studio. The Bowie and Keechie characters in "Thieves Like Us" do not get married, and Bowie's innocence is not asserted as aggressively as in "They Live By Night".
Plot summary
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 a the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie (Duvall). They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to leave his life of crime.
Chicamaw is eventually recaptured and T-Dub is killed in a bank robbery. Bowie poses as a sheriff's deputy to extract Chickamaw from jail. But he quickly becomes disgusted with the violent, raving Chicamaw and abandons him on the side of the road.
The law catches up with Bowie, as they are betrayed by a motor hotel keeper, and he meets a violent end. Keechie carries on, pregnant with Bowie's baby.
ee also
*
They Live By Night External links
* "Thieves Like Us" at Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072274]
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