Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | |
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Directed by | Abraham Polonsky |
Written by | Abraham Polonsky Harry Lawton (book) |
Produced by | Jennings Lang Philip A. Waxman |
Starring | Robert Redford Katharine Ross Robert Blake Susan Clark |
Cinematography | Conrad L. Hall |
Edited by | Melvin Shapiro |
Music by | Dave Grusin |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production companies | Jennings Lang Productions Philip A. Waxman Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,411,583 (US/ Canada rentals)[1] |
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a 1969 American Western film based on the true story of a Chemehuevi–Paiute Native American named Willie Boy[2] and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States.[3] The film is an adaptation of the 1960 book Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton.
The film was written and directed by the once blacklisted Abraham Polonsky, who, due to his blacklisting, had not directed a film since Force of Evil in 1948.