Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Director: Abraham Polonsky Cast: Robert Redford
Robert Redford
, Robert Blake
Robert Blake
, Katharine Ross
Katharine Ross
, Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
Abraham Polonsky
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Director: Abraham Polonsky Cast: Robert Redford
Robert Redford
, Robert Blake
Robert Blake
, Katharine Ross
Katharine Ross
, Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
Abraham Polonsky

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Overview

After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer/director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. The title character, played by Robert Blake, is a Paiute Indian living in 1909 California. After several years in the White Man's world, Willie Boy returns to his reservation, hoping to renew his romance with tribeswoman Lola (Katherine Ross). Old Mike (Mike Angel), Lola's father, strongly disapproves of her relationship with Willie Boy and attacks the youth. Acting in self defense, Willie Boy kills Old Mike. Under tribal rules, Willie Boy is now permitted to claim Lola as his woman. But white lawman Christopher Cooper (Robert Redford) is forced to charge Willie Boy with murder. The Indian and his girl escape the reservation, pursued by the essentially decent Cooper and a less-than-decent crowd of white vigilantes. What begins as comparative minor incident, snowballs into a huge political crisis, with the bewildered but defiant Willie Boy as the catalyst. Tell Them Willie Boy is Here is distinguished by the fine performances of leading players Redford, Blake, Ross and Susan Clark, and by the haunting cinematography of Conrad Hall.

Product Details

Release Date: 02/29/2000
UPC: 0025192052194
Original Release: 1969
Source: ALLIED VAUGHN
Language: English
Time: 1:38:00
Sales rank: 36,956

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Robert Redford Actor
Robert Blake Actor
Katharine Ross Actor
Barry Sullivan Actor
Susan Clark Liz Arnold
John Vernon Hacker
Charles Aidman Benby
Charles McGraw Frank Wilson
Shelly Novack Finney
Robert Lipton Newcombe
Lloyd Gough Dexter
Ned Romero Tom
John Wheeler Newman
Erik Holland Digger
Garry Walberg Dr. Mills
Jerry Velasco Chino
George Tyne Le Marie
Lee de Broux Meathead
Wayne Sutherlin Harry
Jerome Raphel Salesman
Lou Frizzell Station Agent
John Day Sam Wood
Steve Shemayne Johnny Hyde
John Hudkins 3rd Man
Mikel Angel Old Mike
Everett Creach Fake Indian
Johnny Coons Clerk
Stanley Torres 1st Committee Man
Kenneth Holzman Reporter
Joseph C. Mandel Reporter
Spencer Lyons Cody
John Bear Hudkins 3rd Man
Robert Du Laine 1st Escort
Dave Grusin Composer
John Daheim Sam Wood

Technical Credits
Abraham Polonsky Director,Screenwriter
John Daheim Stunts
Philip A. Waxman Producer
Jennings Lang Producer
Waldon O. Watson Sound Effects
William H. Burton Stunts
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