The Onion Field
John Savage and Ted Danson wanted to investigate a civil case by wearing civilian clothes in the US military and investigating a pair of suspicious species. Maybe that plan will fail exactly when one of the men kills Danson in cold blood. Savage managed to escape and arrested the rest of the men, as things seemed to be going at a completely different turn.
8 October 1950, Ozark, Alabama, USA
26 September 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 January 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
21 February 1936, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
16 January 1938, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
16 January 1920, Gagliato, Calabria, Italy
19 December 1919, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
9 March 1938, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
21 April 1946, Ohio, USA
24 November 1949
20 September 1917, Riverside, California, USA
1 October 1957, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
9 December 1937, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
23 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
1943
3 August 1911, Bozeman, Montana, USA
1 August 1925, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1933
26 March 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 December 1947, San Diego, California, USA
2 January 1930, New York City, New York, USA
22 October 1938, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
23 July 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA
29 May 1924, Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
January 01, 2000
Thoughtful trial movie with a disturbing edge.
May 09, 2005
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.
November 08, 2002
Ranks among the best crime films of the late 1970s...and that puts the flick among some rather impressive company.
September 10, 2011
Brutal, even sordid, but compulsive viewing.
March 26, 2009
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.
January 26, 2006
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.
September 10, 2011
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
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.
