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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 ...
- $2,411,583 (US/ Canada rentals)
- Jennings Lang, Philip A. Waxman
A 1969 drama western film based on a true story of a Native American manhunt in 1909. Robert Redford, Katharine Ross and Robert Blake star in this anti-Western directed by Abraham Polonsky.
- (3.2K)
- Drama, Western
- Abraham Polonsky
- 1969-10-31
A Western film based on a true story of a Native American outlaw and his lover. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and other crew members who worked on this movie.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend, Lola (Katharine Ross), Native American man Willie Boy (Robert Blake) kills the man in self-defense ...
- (19)
- Abraham Polonsky
- PG
- Robert Redford
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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. — Jon Hertzberg <jahertzb@students.wisc.edu>.
The plot of Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is taken from a book, based on fact, by Harry Lawton, who became a publisher of several books about American Indians. The true-life story of Willie Boy also formed the basis of a 1994 book published by the University of Oklahoma Press, The Hunt for Willie Boy: Indian Hating and Popular Culture by James A ...
