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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Harold Becker
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Actors:
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Priscilla Pointer,
Dianne Hull,
Franklyn Seales,
John Savage,
James Woods,
Ted Danson,
Ronny Cox,
David Huffman,
Christopher Lloyd,
Beege Barkette
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Duration:
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122 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)82
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the best-selling novel by Joseph Wambaugh, which tells the faithful and terrible parable of the kidnapping of two patrol officers in Los Angeles in the 1960s.
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The Onion Field
Wambaugh, cop turned writer, specializes in the background detail and hellish side of police work. This, the choicest of the movies from his books, takes a proper case and bleakly documents it. Two LA policemen apprehend two hoodlums who turn the tables on them, coerce them into the wilderness and shoot Campbell (Danson), as Hetlinger (Savage) gets away. They bury the half-completely cop in the onion freak of the interest. The scenario concentrates as much on the devastation of Hettinger as on the try-out and incarceration of the psychopathic Smith (Seales) and the compliant Powell (Woods). Brutal, even sordid, but obsessive viewing.
The Onion Field
Manifestly meaning but lumbering case account. The author must carry the blame, as on once upon a time the idea was made faithfully on his terms.
The Onion Field
Cop-turned novelist Joseph Wambaugh was so put the kibosh on by the way The Choirboys was turned into a silver screen, he had complete manage across this script based on a real-preoccupation anyway a lest in 1963 when two small-early hoods kidnap two cops and murder one of them in an onion field. As a documentary-style history of police procedure and the fallibility of the forensic organization this is a gripping and disturbing movie, powerfully acted through John Bloody as the surviving cop who quits the prise to be proper a gardener and by Franklyn Seales and the combustible James Woods as the killers. Woods had also appeared in The Choirboys and would also star in the next Wambaugh policier, The Black Marble.
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