After years of wanting to see it i finally caught Tell Them Willie Boy is Here" off of TCM tonight. Man what a fantastic film. Apparently it was completed before Butch and Sundance, but held until after hoping that there would be some spill over success. Polonsky was also a blacklist victim of McCarthy's...making me wonder if some of that is still keeping this out of the dvd market.MoonlitKnight wrote:My wish list for top 5 releases from both studios:
1. "Taking Off" (Milos Forman, 1971) UNIVERSAL
2. "Comfort and Joy" (Bill Forsyth, 1984) UNIVERSAL
3. "The Incident" (Larry Peerce, 1967) FOX
4. "Sons and Lovers" (Jack Cardiff, 1960) FOX
5. "Resurrection" (Daniel Petrie, 1980) UNIVERSAL/"Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (Abraham Polonsky, 1969) FOX
Despite casting Robert Blake as a Paiute Indian, the film is very very good and a quintessential "70s" film with understated realism. John Ford, this is not.
Anyway...any word on this from any corner of the movie universe? What are the chances something like this could end up in the Criterion Collection?