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Onionhead (1958) - (Movie Clip) Put Your Back Into It!

A social failure on his Oklahoma college campus, Andy Griffith as title character Alvin Woods decides on a career in the services, into a perhaps obligatory training sequence, meeting fellow recruits O’Neal and Berger (Joe Mantell, Tige Andrews) early in director Norman Taurog’s Onionhead, 1958.

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Having blown it again attempting a rendezvous with a local girl, Coast Guard cook Woods (Andy Griffith, title character) decides to drink it off and is surprised to meet his previously hostile boss, plenty intoxicated Chief Wildoe (Walter Matthau), in Onionhead, 1958, from a novel by Wendell Hill.

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