Thieves Like Us, 1974

Like Chinatown, this is another period piece. As in, filmed in the seventies but set in the 30s (odd how period pieces age with time-a period piece set within another period…) It’s Louise Fletcher’s first movie role and an adaptation from the Edward Anderson novel. Director Robert Altman had taken to adapting it without realizing it had already been done-in the 1949 cult classic They Live by Night (not available on Netflix instant)