The Onion Field
Greg Powell, also a distressed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a little burglar, as companion in crime. Powell panics if they two are pulled by 2 cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes together with his mad scheme. They push out into some deserted onion area in Bakersfield, where a single cop is murdered and another escapes. The movie explores the results.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold Becker
Actors: Christopher Lloyd, David Huffman, Franklyn Seales, James Woods, John Savage, Ronny Cox, Ted Danson
Country: USA