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Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.
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Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid.
Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made some fancy burial plans - but they were for her husband Farley, who wasn't dead yet. And until he was, Greta intended to leave no stone unturned.
Then she met Dave Ferris, a young and not-too-scrupulous...
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English
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Bowie teams up with fellow thieves Chicamaw and T-Dub to rob a bank-he needs the money to hire a lawyer to prove he's innocent of murder. On the run, Bowie finds momentary peace when he elopes with a young woman. But Chicamaw and T-Dub want to reel him back in for one more job. One of the earliest American noir novels, Thieves Like Us was filmed twice, as They Live By Night in 1949, and by Robert Altman under the book's original title.
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...
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