Thieves Like Us | |
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Directed by | Robert Altman |
Screenplay by | Joan Tewkesbury Calder Willingham Robert Altman |
Based on | Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson |
Produced by | Robert Altman |
Starring | Keith Carradine Shelley Duvall John Schuck Bert Remsen Louise Fletcher Tom Skerritt |
Cinematography | Jean Boffety |
Edited by | Lou Lombardo |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 123 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $300,000 (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
Thieves Like Us is a 1974 American crime film, set in the United States of the 1930s. It was directed by Robert Altman and starred Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Edward Anderson, which also supplied source material for the 1948 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray. The Altman film sticks much closer to the book. The supporting cast includes Louise Fletcher and Tom Skerritt.
The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.[2]