The Onion Field (1979)

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6.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Harold Becker

Starring (View all)

John Savage
Det. Karl Francis Hettinger

James Woods
Gregory Ulas Powell

Franklyn Seales
Jimmy Lee 'Youngblood' Smith

Ted Danson
Det. Ian James Campbell

Ronny Cox
Det. Sgt. Pierce R. Brooks

David Huffman
Dist. Atty. Phil Halpin

Christopher Lloyd
Jailhouse Lawyer

Dianne Hull
Helen Hettinger

Written by

Joseph Wambaugh
(book)

Eric Roth
uncredited

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The film focuses on an actual 1963 event in which Los Angeles Police Department detectives Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell were kidnapped by criminals Greg Powell and Jimmy Smith (aka "Jimmy Youngblood") and taken to an onion field near Bakersfield, where Campbell was shot and killed and Hettinger managed to escape.

Release date: 17 March 1980
UPC: 027616879035