Thieves Like Us (film)

Thieves Like Us is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson, which was also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray. The supporting cast includes Louise Fletcher and Tom Skerritt.

Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and TDub 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. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowies refusal to turn his back on crime. ........

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