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The Onion Field

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This film is based on an actual 1963 case. L.A. plainclothesmen John Savage and Ted Danson routinely investigate a pair of suspicious types. Unexpectedly, one of the men kills Danson in cold blood. Savage manages to escape and the men are arrested. But that is not that.

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Actors:

John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox, David Huffman, Christopher Lloyd, Dianne Hull, Priscilla Pointer, Beege Barkette, Richard Herd, ...»

Director:

Harold Becker

Country:

United States

Release:

1979

IMDb:

6.8

Quality:

Duration:

122 min

KEYWORDS:

#Franklyn Seales #Harold Becker #James Woods #John Savage #The Onion Field

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ACTORS OF "The Onion Field"

John Savage

25 August 1949, Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA

James Woods

18 April 1947, Vernal, Utah, USA

Franklyn Seales

15 July 1952, Kingstown, St. Vincent, British West Indies [now Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]

Ted Danson

29 December 1947, San Diego, California, USA

Ronny Cox

23 July 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA

David Huffman

10 May 1945, Berwyn, Illinois, USA

Christopher Lloyd

22 October 1938, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Dianne Hull

24 November 1949

Priscilla Pointer

18 May 1924, New York City, New York, USA

Beege Barkette

8 October 1950, Ozark, Alabama, USA

Richard Herd

26 September 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Le Tari

21 April 1946, Ohio, USA

Richard Venture

12 November 1923, New Jersey, USA

Lee Weaver

10 April 1930, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Pat Corley

1 June 1930, Dallas, Texas, USA

K Callan

9 January 1936, Dallas, Texas, USA

Sandy McPeak

21 February 1936, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA

Lillian Randolph

14 December 1898, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Ned Wilson

1933

Jack Rader

23 February 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA

Bradford English

1943

Stanley Grover

28 March 1926, Woodstock, Illinois, USA

Michael Pataki

16 January 1938, Youngstown, Ohio, USA

Steve Conte

16 January 1920, Gagliato, Calabria, Italy

Burke Byrnes

9 December 1937, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA

Vincent Caristi

16 September 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Don Starr

20 September 1917, Riverside, California, USA

William Dial

Raymond Guth

29 May 1924, Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA

Raleigh Bond

20 July 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sandy Ward

12 July 1926, Alamosa, Colorado, USA

Kenneth Patterson

3 August 1911, Bozeman, Montana, USA

Peter Miller

2 January 1930, New York City, New York, USA

William Sanderson

10 January 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Richard Seff

23 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA

19 December 1919, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

John de Lancie

March 20, 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

28 July 1939, Niagara Falls, New York, USA

Tony Becker

14 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA

Tony Di Milo

1 August 1925, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Jessie Lawrence Ferguson

8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA

Nick Romero

Cindy Collins

Phillip R. Allen

26 March 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Peter Miller

Dennis Falt

Rusty Meyers

1 October 1957, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Charles Siebert

9 March 1938, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

DIRECTORS OF "The Onion Field"

Harold Becker

25 September 1928, New York City, New York, USA

CREATORS OF "The Onion Field"

Joseph Wambaugh

22 January 1937, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

HEROES OF "The Onion Field"

Jimmy Lee 'Youngblood' Smith

Played by: Franklyn Seales

CRITICS OF "The Onion Field"

Variety

James Woods as the near-psychotic Powell is chillingly effective, creating a flakiness in the character that exudes the danger of a live wire near a puddle.

March 26, 2009

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Apollo Guide

Ranks among the best crime films of the late 1970s...and that puts the flick among some rather impressive company.

November 08, 2002

TV Guide

Good acting and careful direction by Becker make it worth seeing, but the violence and the language may be too graphic for some tastes.

September 10, 2011

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Empire Magazine

Thoughtful trial movie with a disturbing edge.

January 01, 2000

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Film4

Brutal, even sordid, but compulsive viewing.

September 10, 2011

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TIME Magazine

The Onion Field is a serious and most uncompromising movie. It lacks, however, the sort of disciplined craft that might have made it a powerful and affecting one.

September 10, 2011

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Time Out

It's the usual heavy Wambaugh brew: police procedure closely observed without a trace of romanticism, suggesting simply that life in the force is psychological hell.

January 26, 2006

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New York Times

The film is generally crisp and at times exciting, but it's also full of incidents that are only sketchily explained, and minus the all-important narrative thread that might have provided a clear point of view.

May 09, 2005

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