SOURCE: An interview in The Image Maker, edited by Ron Henderson, John Knox Press, 1971, pp. 17-27.

Pasternak is an American film director, screenwriter, and educator. Howton is an American sociologist and film critic. In the following interview, Polonsky discusses the impetus for making Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here and describes his career as a filmmaker before and after the blacklist.

[Pasternak and Howton]: Tell us about your new project.

[Polonsky]: I have three. One of them is Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke, which Universal bought for my company to make into film. Another is an original screenplay by me called Sweet Land, which Universal bought for my company to do, and a third is one I haven't sold to anyone yet, Mario the Magician by Thomas Mann.

You've been working on that property for quite a while now, haven't you?

I got it from Thomas Mann in...