Thieves like Us

Thieves like Us

1974. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. Screenplay by Altman, Joan Tewkesbury, Calder Willingham. With Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher. Depression-era Mississippi becomes a textured, vivid character in this portrayal of chain-gang escapees who blunder through another spree of bank hold-ups. When Bowie (Carradine) is injured, he is nursed back to health by the sweet and simple Keechie (Duvall), beginning a tender but doomed romance. From the New Deal speeches and 1930s radio programs that comprise the diagetic score to the ubiquitous Coca-Cola bottles, Thieves like Us presents a poetic regional portrait. 124 min.