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www.boxoffice.com - : Based in fact, Joseph Wambaugh's ''The Onion Field'' is still one of the most penetrating fact-based crime films of the past thirty years, arriving at the tail end of the decade best known for such films, the '70s. Such now-famous figures as James Woods and Ted Danson emerged as bona-fide stars in their own right thanks to this film about two officers whose routine traffic stop quickly spirals into a nightmare of epic proportions when their subjects, a pair of vicious criminals, turn the tables on them. more...
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www.reel.com - : he Onion Field recounts the gangland-style execution of L.A. cop Ian Campbell (Ted Danson, in his first feature film) and the slow death that his partner, Karl Hettinger (John Savage) suffers in the aftermath of a traffic stop gone tragically wrong. With two of the real-life principals in San Quentin and a third still feeling the aftershocks at the time the film was made, Wambaugh and Becker felt obligated to produce a truthful screen version. Whenever possible, they shot scenes at locations where events actually occurred, used dialogue recalled by witnesses, and cast actors who looked eerily like their real-life counterparts. more...
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