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Where was Thieves Like Us filmed?

1974 film, directed by Robert Altman.

  • Mississippi

The story is set in Mississippi, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Mississippi
Filmed in
Mississippi

About Thieves Like Us

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Released
1974
Director
Robert Altman
Cast
Keith CarradineShelley DuvallJohn SchuckBert RemsenLouise FletcherJoan Tewkesbury
Genre
RomanceDramaCrime
Based on
Thieves Like Us
Awards
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

The story

Bowie, a young man convicted of murder when a teenager, and Chicamaw, an old lag, escape from a Mississippi prison in 1936 and join up with another old lag, T-Dub, who has hired a cab to meet them.

Here Bowie gets to talk to Keechie, the garageman's daughter.

Bowie is injured in a car crash, after which Chicamaw guns down an inquisitive officer.

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