A group of criminals daringly escape from prison in depression era mississippi'. '.strtoupper('t')hey 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'. '.strtoupper('m')ade within one of the great runs of back to back classics by any filmmaker, robert altman followed multi award winning classics like mash and the long goodbye with thieves like us, an adaptation of edward anderson's pulp novel'. '.strtoupper('p')reviously 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'. '.strtoupper('m')iller'. '.strtoupper('c')ritically praised, noted critic pauline kael described it as 'the closest to flawless of altman's films a masterpiece.high definition digital transferoriginal uncompressed mono pcm audioaudio commentary by director robert altmanbrand new interview with co screenwriter joan tewkesbury who discusses the film and her working relationship with altman 2023brand new interview with star keith carradine 2023geoff andrew on thieves like us the critic discusses the film and its place within altman's worktwo classic radio plays featured in the film the shadow written by and starring orson welles and speed gibson of the international secret police starring ed gardnertrailerpromotional image galleryenglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing