'Indians don't last long in prison. They weren't born to it like the whites.' So says Willie Boy (Robert Blake) in this sort-of-Western, which comes out more as a slice of 20th-century American history. It's 1909 in California. Willie and his mistress keep a clandestine meeting which ends in Willie being forced to shoot the girl's father. A manhunt ensues which is to last for the rest of the film. Robert Redford is excellent as the pursuing sheriff, tortured by the thought that he could have arrested Willie for a poolroom brawl, if he hadn't been so anxious to jump into bed with his own girl. It's a nice little film with beautiful photography by Conrad Hall which, particularly in its nighttime scenes, is highly praiseworthy.

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