Thieves Like Us (1974) on Netflix
In 1936, Bowie and Chicamaw break out of a Mississippi prison and join T-Dub for a string of bank robberies. At a garage hideout, Bowie meets Keechie, the garageman's daughter.
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Plot summary
Bowie, sent to prison as a teenager for murder, and Chicamaw, a veteran convict, escape from a Mississippi penitentiary in 1936. A cab sent by T-Dub, another former inmate, collects them, and the three make bank robbery their trade, staying first with a garage owner they know. There Bowie gets to talk with Keechie, the garageman's daughter. They next stay with Mattie, T-Dub's sister-in-law, and her children, among them older daughter Lula. A car crash injures Bowie, and the gang leaves him behind at the garage, where Keechie nurses him. The two become lovers, but Bowie means to keep robbing banks.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Thieves Like Us (1974)
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- The film has no traditional score at all. Every piece of music in it is diegetic "source music", usually heard coming from a radio in the scene, and the largely Mississippi location shoot filled the frame with a large number of small-town people as extras.
