Thieves Like Us
1974
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| United Artists | Release Date: February 11, 1974 |
Starring:
Al Scott, Ann Latham, Bert Remsen, John Roper, John Schuck, Keith Carradine, Louise Fletcher, Mary Waits, Shelley Duvall, Tom Skerritt
Summary:
When two men break out of prison, they join up with another and restart their criminal ways, robbing banks across the South.
The performances are sublime, of course, but it's how Altman masterminds the moral conflicts at the core of the story that makes Thieves so powerful. [03 Jun 2007, p.32]
There’s a reason this Altman picture isn’t as recognized as his other ’70s classics. But as laid back and matter-of-fact as Thieves Like Us is — there’s no score for example, just diegetic sound — it’s still a fascinating piece of work in Altman’s not-always-perfect, still-interesting ouevre.
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Robert Altman finds a sure, soft tone in this movie, from 1974, and he never loses it. His account of Coca-Cola-swigging young lovers in the thirties is the most quietly poetic of his films; it’s sensuous right from the first pearly-green long shot, and it seems to achieve beauty without artifice.
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