Blacklisted filmmaker Abraham Polonsky returned to Hollywood after a 20 year exile with the unique, based-on-a-true-story western Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. Following several years in the white man’s world, the Paiute Indian title character (Robert Blake) comes home to renew his relationship with Lola (Katharine Ross). But when Willie Boy kills her father in self defense, he triggers a violent manhunt fueled by white vigilantes. Can the empathetic Sheriff Cooper (Robert Redford) stem the posse’s thirst for blood?
“A powerful unfoldment of a particular incident in US history, the film becomes, by extension, a deeply personal and radical vision of the past and future.” – Variety
