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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 and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States. The film is an adaptation of the 1960 book Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton.
With Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark. In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.
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Based on true events, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self...
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend, Lola (Katharine Ross), Native American man Willie Boy (Robert Blake) kills the man in self-defense. Forced to go on the run, the...
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Based on true events, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here won two British Academy Awards for Redford and Ross as Best Actor and Best Actress. It also won Best Non-European Film in Denmark's Bodil Awards. Director: Abraham Polonsky Producer: Philip A. Waxman, Jennings Lang Screenplay: Abraham Polonsky, based on the book Willie Boy...A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton
