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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell them that old Indian fighter got his. Tell them I'll kill if I have to. Tell them they'll never take me alive.

1969 · 1h 38m · M Drama, Western
Directed by Abraham Polonsky

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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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91%
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Fresh

A thoughtful, intelligent film that nearly makes up in style and conviction what it lacks in dramatic substance.

Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Redford's 'presence' is magnificent, always suggesting the classically-structured, powerful-but-weak American.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

A powerful film, even though the script wears its liberal conscience on its sleeve (and further hedges its bets by casting nice Robert Redford as the sheriff), directed with austere authority in desert landcapes marvellously shot by Conrad Hall.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is another one of the best American movies, and in its own way, equally idiomatic, evocative, and resourceful [as Force of Evil].

Roger Greenspun, New York Times

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