Movies
February, 1974
Fresh from a prison break, boy meets girl, robs banks and comes to a bad end in Thieves Like Us, a blistering slice of life based on Edward Anderson's mid-Thirties novel and transformed into prime-quality Americana by director Robert Altman, whose M*A*S*H, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Long Goodbye (to name a few) guarantee his place in the top rank of U. S. film makers. Already filmed once--as They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray's 1949 drama starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell--Thieves will...
