Thieves Like Us (film)

Thieves Like Us
Directed byRobert Altman
Screenplay byJoan Tewkesbury
Calder Willingham
Robert Altman
Based onThieves Like Us
by Edward Anderson
Produced byRobert Altman
StarringKeith Carradine
Shelley Duvall
John Schuck
Bert Remsen
Louise Fletcher
Tom Skerritt
CinematographyJean Boffety
Edited byLou Lombardo
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • February 11, 1974 (1974-02-11)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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]

  1. ^ "UA In '74". Variety. January 15, 1975. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Thieves Like Us". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-26.

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