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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here ()

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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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  • Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
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Cooper
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Lola
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Willie
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Liz
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Calvert
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Hacker
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Benby
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Wilson
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Finney
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Newcombe
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Dexter
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Tom
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Newman
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Digger (as Eric Holland)
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Dr. Mills
Jerry Velasco ...
Chino
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Le Marie
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Meathead (as Lee De Broux)
Wayne Sutherlin ...
Harry
Jerome Raphael ...
Salesman (as Jerome Raphel)
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Station Agent
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mikel Angel ...
Old Mike (uncredited)
Dick Cherney ...
Porter (uncredited)
Ken Clayton ...
Reporter (uncredited)
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Clerk (uncredited)
Everett Creach ...
Fake Indian (uncredited)
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Sam Wood (uncredited)
Robert Dulaine ...
Escort #1 (uncredited)
Raven Grey Eagle ...
Indian (uncredited)
Kenneth Holzman ...
Reporter (uncredited)
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Man #3 (uncredited)
Spencer Lyons ...
Cody (posse member) (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
Anthony Redondo ...
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
Steve Shemayne ...
Johnny Hyde (posse member) (uncredited)
Stanley Torres ...
Committee man #1 (uncredited)
George Tracy ...
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Joe Walls ...
Reporter (uncredited)

Directed by

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Abraham Polonsky

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Harry Lawton ... (book)
 
Abraham Polonsky ... (written by)

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Jennings Lang ... producer
Philip A. Waxman ... producer

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Dave Grusin

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Conrad L. Hall ... director of photography (as Conrad Hall)

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Melvin Shapiro

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Henry Bumstead
Alexander Golitzen

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Ruby R. Levitt ... (as Ruby Levitt)
John McCarthy Jr. ... (as John McCarthy)

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Edith Head

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Larry Germain ... hair stylist
Bud Westmore ... makeup artist
Marvin G. Westmore ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Hal W. Polaire ... unit production manager (as Hal Polaire)
Charles Clement ... post production operations head (uncredited)

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Joseph E. Kenney ... assistant director (as Joseph Kenny)
Ted Swanson ... second assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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David H. Moriarty ... sound
Waldon O. Watson ... sound

Stunts

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William H. Burton ... stunts (uncredited)
John Daheim ... stunts (uncredited)
Running Deer ... stunt double: Robert Blake (uncredited)
Mickey Gilbert ... stunt double: Robert Blake (uncredited)
Leroy Johnson ... stunt double: Barry Sullivan (uncredited)
Denver Mattson ... stunt double: Jerry Velasco (uncredited)
Brandon Pender ... equestrian stunts (uncredited)

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Jordan Cronenweth ... camera operator (uncredited)
Thomas Del Ruth ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Robert C. Thomas ... assistant camera (uncredited)

Music Department

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Stanley Wilson ... music supervisor
Richard Luckey ... music editor (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Robert Werden ... unit publicist (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

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. Written by Jon Hertzberg

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Taglines The Willie Boy incident was the most savage chapter in frontier history ! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Willie Boy (United States)
  • Willie Boy (France)
  • Blutige Spur (Germany)
  • El valle del fugitivo (Spain)
  • Jagten på Willie Boy (Denmark)
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  • 98 min
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Trivia Abraham Polonsky said to a USC film class at the time that he purposely shot and edited the manhunt sequences with characters moving in all directions across the screen, rather than in the usual way wherein both runners and pursuers would move in the same direction across the shots (i.e., left to right) to enhance the impression of urgent suspense in a chase. Instead, Polonsky was looking for a different feel for the audience, of the characters wandering, feeling their way through the landscape. He implied he was willing to sacrifice some suspense to externalize the characters' confusion. He also said that for Katharine Ross' brief, artfully lit nude shot, he exposed the film correctly but then produced a high-contrast copy of the same film frames with deep blacks and transparent lights, then bi-packed both pieces of films together to rephotograph. The high-contrast overlay ensured that the shadows on Ross' body were black--so that the image could not reveal more in the shadows than it was supposed to. See more »
Goofs Many of the hats worn in the film are not the style worn during the early part of the 20th century. Some in fact, could only have been sewn using machines created in the 1950s, nearly half a century after the film's setting. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Red Hollywood (1996). See more »
Quotes Dr. Elizabeth Arnold: Willie killed Mike and took Lola. They call it marriage by capture. The mother knew that and told her to go.
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