Onionhead (1958)
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56% want to see it
(10 ratings)
In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants and the hotheaded truculence of Lonesome Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd. Griffith is cast as Al Woods, a college student majoring in girls… More In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants and the hotheaded truculence of Lonesome Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd. Griffith is cast as Al Woods, a college student majoring in girls and parties. When his grades drop and his relationship with girlfiend Jo Hill (Erin O'Brien) sours, Al joins the Coast Guard as assistant cook on the SS Periwinkle, fully expecting to sit out WW2 in peace and quiet. Instead, he runs afoul of navy protocol in general and mess officer Red Wildoe (Walter Matthau) in particular. In or out of trouble, Al remains a stubborn individualist, and it is this quality that attracts him to Wildoe's erstwhile fiancee Stella (Felica Farr). Strong support is provided by Roscoe Karns as Al Woods' crusty father, James Gregory as the skipper of thePeriwinkle, and Joey Bishop is the inevitable Brooklynite. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Norman Taurog
- Written By
- Nelson Gidding
- Genres
- Comedy
Unrated,
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Andy Griffith and the other actors are decent, but the film is verbose, overlong, and lacks sufficient humor to qualify as comedy.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Can only achieve sentimental drivel and very little comedy.
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Cast
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Andy Griffith
as Al Woods
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Felicia Farr
as Stella
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Walter Matthau
as "Red" Wildoe
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Joe Mantell
as "Doc" O'Neal
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Ray Danton
as Ensign Dennis Higgins
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James Gregory
as the "Skipper"
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Joey Bishop
as Gutsell
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Roscoe Karns
as "Windy" Woods
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Claude Akins
as Poznicki
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Ainslie Pryor
as Chief Miller
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Sean Garrison
as Yeoman Kaffhamp
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Dan Barton
as Ensign Fineberg
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Mark Roberts
as Lt. Bennett
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Peter Brown
as Clark
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Tige Andrews
as Charlie Berger
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Karl Lukas
as Agnelli
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Erin O'Brien
as Jo Hill
