THE ONION FIELD (WIDESCREEN) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1979
• Genre: Crime; Drama
• Plot: From a real-life American tragedy; this tale of thoughtless brutality; cold-blooded murder and hard-won justice is 'a prowling; gripping; disturbing movie' (Newsweek). Starring John Savage and James Woods and featuring a stunning attention to detail and an unflinching emotional honesty; The Onion Field is 'intriguing; absorbing; powerful; well-acted' (Film Journal) - and riveting from beginning to end. On March 9; 1963; LAPD officers Karl Hettinger (Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) pull over a vehicle for making an illegal U-turn - and find themselves held at gunpoint by two seasoned armed robbers. Forced to give up their guns and drive to a deserted road; both officers face the horror of becoming victims in a mob-style execution...but only one is able to escape into the bleak darkness of an onion field.
• Cast: John Savage; James Woods; Franklyn Seales; Ted Danson; Ronny Cox; David Huffman; Christopher Lloyd; Dianne Hull; Priscilla Pointer; Beege Barkette; Richard Herd; Le Tari; Richard Venture; Lee Weaver; Pat Corley; K Callan; Sandy McPeak; Lillian Randolph; Ned Wilson; Jack Rader; Bradford English; Stanley Grover; Michael Pataki; Steve Conte; Burke Byrnes; Vincent Caristi; Don Starr; William Dial; Raymond Guth; Raleigh Bond; Sandy Ward; Kenneth Patterson; Peter Miller; William Sanderson; Richard Seff; Robert Lee Jarvis; Allen Williams; Jon K. Greene; Dolores Sandoz; Bill Morey; John de Lancie; Wendell Wright; Richard E. Kalk; Ray Camacho; Maggie Sullivan; René Le Vant; Charles Cyphers; Tony Becker; Tony Di Milo; Jessie Lawrence Ferguson; Nick Romero; Cindy Collins; Phillip R. Allen; Roger Carroll; Bruce T. Huntley; Rusty Meyers; Charles Siebert; Harold Becker; Joseph Wambaugh; Eric Roth
• Director: Harold Becker
• Runtime: 2:06
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie