- An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
- Chickamaw, T-Dub, and Bowie have just escaped from prison. While Chickamaw and T-Dub are hardened criminals--bank robbers--23-year-old Bowie, who has been in prison since he was 16, was wrongly convicted of murder. As he felt he was rotting behind bars, Bowie, when given this opportunity by his two older colleagues, believed his best path forward was to help Chickamaw and T-Dub in their upcoming heists, in a case of knowing there was a payback in they choosing him, to make enough money to hire a lawyer to clear his name of the murder conviction. The plan is to hide out with Chickamaw's alcoholic brother Mobley until they have enough money to make other arrangements. Also with them is Mobley's daughter Keechie, who doesn't much like life with her father or uncle. In their time together, Bowie and Keechie form a bond, both emotional and romantic, and start to dream of a life together in which Bowie would not always need to look behind his back to see the authorities ready to haul him away. Escaping from the obligations to Chickamaw and T-Dub might not be easy for Bowie, but being forever attached to them might mean not having a future with Keechie.—Huggo
- In the '40s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-year-old 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, Keechie. 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" more severely than ever.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- As the words This boy... and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in we see Keechie (Cathy ODonnell) and Bowie (Farley Granger) smiling at each other, we cut to a helicopter shot of a car driving fast with Chickamaw (Howard Da Silva) driving until a tire blows out and T-Dub (Jay C. Flippen) and Bowie (Farley Granger) ditch the car and take off across a field. They have just knocked over a bank and gotten away with enough money to fund their next robbery. Along the way they stop off in a small ranch where Bowie meets Keechie (Cathy ODonnell) and the two bond after sharing their unrealistic life goals. Each of them wants a better life and when Bowie is injured driving a car Keechie nurses him back to health and the two team up using the large cache of bank money to fund their attempt to get away from the authorities. Through their travels among back roads and out-of-the-way motels the two fall deeper in love and blindly plan out a future as the authorities close in.
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