Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

1969 · 98 min · EN · PG · 5.7 (61 votes)
Dir. Abraham Polonsky · Starring Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan, John Vernon
Western

While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.

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This stark, sun-baked western feels like a slow-motion tragedy. It’s a tense, character-driven manhunt that captures the oppressive heat and the grim realities of prejudice in the early 1900s West.

bleaktensemelancholicgrittysteadyrevisionist westerncharacter-drivennaturalisticprejudicesurvivaljusticecultural conflict
californiadeputy sheriffnative americanbased on true storyon the rundesertnative american reservationpossemanhunt1900s
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