Pros: Story, Excellent DVD Featurette Cons: Some rough spots in the acting and the screenplay
When Joseph Wambaugh set out to write The Onion Field, he didn’t intend to write a “true crime novel”, and when he scraped together the funding from friends and acquaintances to finance the film version, he didn’t intend to film a “true crime movie ...
Pros: acting by Woods, Savage, and Danson, good story, DVD production Cons: Seales seems weak next to Woods
In this day and age of real crime dramas on television, it’s hard to remember a time when the details of crimes were so horrific that the public was often protected from them. The events depicted in The Onion Field are based on ...
Pros: Woods, Savage, sometimes gripping story Cons: Seales, pace, familiarity
This low-key and slightly predictable but often gripping 1979 film is apparently a true story, but reminded me of the brilliant "In Cold Blood" in many ways. The film stars John Savage (whose career would be best described as sporadic, but has ...
From a real-life American tragedy, this tale of thoughtless brutality, cold-blooded murder and hard-won justice is a prowling, gripping, disturbing mo...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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