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Drama Film

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)

June 29 at 4pm

At The Museum of Modern Art

Midtown, New York

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🎬"displaced in time, style, and theme" (Paul Schrader)
📽️Polonsky's first film after 20-year blacklist exile
🏜️Conrad Hall's Mojave Desert photography

This 1969 revisionist Western marks director Abraham Polonsky's triumphant return after two decades on the Hollywood blacklist. Robert Redford and Robert Blake star in a morally complex manhunt through the Mojave Desert, where stunning naturalistic cinematography meets political allegory that refuses easy answers.

1960s cinema
political allegory
true story adaptation
Robert Redford

The Museum of Modern Art

11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA

www.moma.org

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