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TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE

TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE
by Abraham Polonsky
Country: USA
Year: 1969
Duration: 98'


Willie Boy, a young “Americanized” Indian, returns to his Paiute tribe to marry Lola. Forced to kill the girl’s father in legitimate defense, he escapes with her into the mountains. The recalcitrant vice-sheriff Cooper, Robert Redford, the face of liberal America, sets off to bring him back. This is the beginning of a manhunt which indirectly calls to mind the McCarthy witch hunts. It is no coincidence that the director is Abraham Polonsky, in his return to film after twenty-one years of political exile.

Biography

film director

Abraham Polonsky

FILMOGRAFIA

Force of Evil (Le forze del male, 1948), Oedipus Rex (id., 1957), Seaway (Seaway: acque difficili, 1965), Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Ucciderò Willie Kid, 1969), Romansa konjokradice (Il romanzo di un ladro di cavalli, 1971).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Abraham Polonski, dal libro/from the book Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt di/by Harry W. Lawton
fotografia/cinematography
Conrad L. Hall
montaggio/film editing
Melvin Shapiro
scenografia/production design
Henry Bumstead, Alexander Golitzen
costumi/costume design
Edith Head
musica/music
Dave Grusin
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Robert Redford (il vicesceriffo/deputy sheriff Christopher «Coop» Cooper), Katharine Ross (Lola), Robert Blake (Willie Boy), Barry Sullivan (Ray Calvert), John Vernon (George Hacker)
produzione/production
Universal Pictures
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