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The Onion Field (film)
1979 film directed by Harold Becker
The Onion Field (film)
The Onion Field is a 1979 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Harold Becker, and adapted by Joseph Wambaugh from his 1973 true crime book. The film is a dramatization of the March 1969 "Onion Field incident", in which two Los Angeles police officers were kidnapped, and one murdered, by Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith. It stars John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ronny Cox, Christopher Lloyd, and Ted Danson in his film debut. The film premiered at the 1979 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States by AVCO Embassy Pictures on September 19, 1979. It received positive reviews from critics and was a moderate commercial success. Woods' performance as Powell was widely-praised, and earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.
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