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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.
21 April 1946, Ohio, USA
28 March 1926, Woodstock, Illinois, USA
16 January 1938, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
March 20, 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
16 September 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 January 1920, Gagliato, Calabria, Italy
23 February 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 June 1930, Dallas, Texas, USA
September 10, 2011
Brutal, even sordid, but compulsive viewing.
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.
January 01, 2000
Thoughtful trial movie with a disturbing edge.
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.
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.
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.
