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25 October 1958 (USA) moreTagline:
The Ship's Cook who has the Coast Guard in a Stew!Plot Keywords:
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Description more (6 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Andy Griffith | ... | Alvin 'Al' Woods |
 | Felicia Farr | ... | Stella |
 | Walter Matthau | ... | 'Red' Wildoe |
 | Erin O'Brien | ... | Josephine 'Jo' Hill |
| Joe Mantell | ... | Harry 'Doc' O'Neal |
| Ray Danton | ... | Ensign Dennis Higgins |
| James Gregory | ... | The 'Skipper' |
 | Joey Bishop | ... | Sidney Gutsell |
| Roscoe Karns | ... | 'Windy' Woods |
| Claude Akins | ... | Poznicki |
| Ainslie Pryor | ... | Chief Miller |
| Sean Garrison | ... | Yeoman Kaffhamp |
| Dan Barton | ... | Ens. Fineberg |
| Mark Roberts | ... | Lt. Bennett |
 | Peter Brown | ... | Clark |
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Miscellaneous: As Red gets ready to leave the cutter to report for escort duty, he puts on his peacoat, which is missing the USCG Shield emblem on its right sleeve. (It is, however, on his jumper in the proper position.) moreFAQ
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In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere in between 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 girlfriend 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 fiancée Stella (Felica Farr). Strong support is provided by Roscoe Karns as Al Woods' crusty father, James Gregory as the skipper of the Periwinkle, and Joey Bishop is the inevitable Brooklynite.
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