Onionhead

Onionhead

Onionhead is a 1958 comedy-drama film set on a U.S. Coast Guard ship during World War II, starring Andy Griffith and featuring Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien, James Gregory, Joey Bishop, and Claude Akins. It was directed by Norman Taurog and was written by Nelson Gidding and Weldon Hill from Hill's novel. "Weldon Hill" was the pseudonym of William R. Scott, a native Oklahoman who based the novel on his own World War II service in the Coast Guard. Griffith had experienced success with his previous service comedy, No Time for Sergeants, and Onionhead was an attempt to cash in on that success. It was marketed as an uproarious comedy but is actually a comedy-drama with some fairly dark themes. Onionhead was such a notorious flop that it drove Griffith into television, according to Griffith's videotaped interview in the Archive of American Television.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
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Year:
1958
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Alvin 'Al' Woods aka Onionhead:
Now get this straight - I brought you home as a favour to Red. And you might...

Stella Papparonis:
Oh, I married the wrong guy. It should have been you. I don't care what you think, but love me, love me, love me.

Alvin 'Al' Woods aka Onionhead:
Get away from me! Other guys have had unfaithful wives but you're not even that. I pity Red.

Stella Papparonis:
Al! Pity me!

Alvin 'Al' Woods aka Onionhead:
For what? For being a cheap, dirty, little tramp?

Stella Papparonis:
You think I want to be like this? Don't you think I'd like to be happy and find love like other women? Don't you think I'd like to be satisfied with one man? You, you don't know what it's all about. I can't help what I am. I was born this way. One look at me and every man thinks I'm made for love. Well, that's a laugh. Because I'm just the opposite. I'll never know the meaning of love. But I want to know. I want to know. I really liked you, Al. I kept thinking maybe, maybe it'd be different with you.

Alvin 'Al' Woods aka Onionhead:
Stella, I...

Stella Papparonis:
Beat it, Al. Leave me alone.

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