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The Onion Field
It is those events that are closer to reality, with John Savage and Ted Danson wanting to wear civilian clothes in the US military by investigating a pair of suspicious species. Things seem to be going terribly wrong, as one of the men kills Danson in cold blood. As for Savage, he managed to escape and the men were arrested, but that is not good.
24 November 1949
9 December 1937, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
March 20, 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 March 1938, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
8 October 1950, Ozark, Alabama, USA
29 May 1924, Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
1 December 1948, USA
1943
23 July 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA
2 January 1930, New York City, New York, USA
23 February 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 April 1946, Ohio, USA
21 February 1936, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
28 July 1939, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
16 September 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 September 1917, Riverside, California, USA
23 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
January 01, 2000
Thoughtful trial movie with a disturbing edge.
September 10, 2011
Brutal, even sordid, but compulsive viewing.
November 08, 2002
Ranks among the best crime films of the late 1970s...and that puts the flick among some rather impressive company.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.