Robert Altman's "Thieves Like Us" Blu-ray - Shelley Duvall / Keith Carradine @FilmsRadiance
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A group of criminals daringly escape from prison in depression-era Mississippi. They survive by robbing banks and hole up with a gas station attendant where injured Bowie (Keith Carradine, Nashville) falls in love with the attendant’s daughter Keechie (Shelley Duvall, 3 Women). Made within one of the great runs of back-to-back classics by any filmmaker, Robert Altman followed multi-award-winning classics like M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye with Thieves Like Us, an adaptation of Edward Anderson’s pulp novel. Previously adapted by Nicholas Ray as They Live by Night, Altman's film takes a more faithful approach to the source material, preserving the original tone and period of the novel, going back to historical and American myth themes that Altman mined so brilliantly in his earlier McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Critically praised, noted critic Pauline Kael described it as “the closest to flawless of Altman's films – a masterpiece.”
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Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us was largely shot on location in Mississippi and uses may unprofessional actors as extras. It uses the same source novel, by Edward Anderson, as Nicholas Ray's 1948 classic Noir They Live by Night with Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell. The title comes from the statement by bank robber named T-Dub Masefeld (Bert Remsen) that bankers are 'thieves just like us.' The Radiance Blu-ray is easily the best edition available with superior a/v and a host of extras including the original Altman commentary and new video pieces, plus radio plays, original poster and limited edition booklet. Altman fans should buy with extreme confidence.
