Onionhead

Onionhead (1958)

The Ship's Cook who has the Coast Guard in a Stew!

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Date of release
1958-10-25
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Norman Taurog

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Onionhead

Onionhead is a 1958 American 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 is directed by Norman Taurog and is written by Nelson Gidding and Weldon Hill from Hill's novel. Weldon Hill is the pseudonym of William R. Scott, a native Oklahoman who based the novel on his own World War II service in the Coast Guard.

Production

Filming on Onionhead was held up for a week in November 1957 when Andy Griffith came down with a virulent flu from the "Asian flu" pandemic. The film was shot at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank; location shooting for the film took place at the Coast Guard station in Alameda, California, aboard USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333), at Coast Guard Base Yerba Buena Island and in Long Beach, California for interiors on USCGC Heather (WAGL-331).

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