CRY, ONION! is Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's addition to the comedy spaghetti western genre, and highly influenced by the spoofery of the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer team. The great Franco Nero plays a permed gunfighter called Onion, who, you guessed it, has a passion for eating raw onions. Watching Nero goofing around and munching down on onions while grinning manically turns out to be very funny, and that silly permed hair of his helps a lot too. Bizarrely, he's been dubbed by a guy who sounds just like Jimmy Stewart in the English version. The plot is nothing special and sees Onion helping out a group of orphaned kids in their struggle against a ruthless oil baron. There's plenty of action and humour here, even if most of it is lowbrow, and I appreciate the surrealist touches, like Martin Balsam's mechanical hand. CRY, ONION! isn't quite up there with the best of Spencer & Hill, but it does the job well enough.

One of Franco Nero movies, known in my native country as Cry Onion. I saw this movie back the late 1970s or early 1980s. It is my kind of movie.It came out around the same time frame as the Terrance Hill & Bud Spencer movies They Call Me Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name. I love them. All these years I thought Cry Onion was a Terrance Hill and Bud Spencer movie. I found out different a few hrs ago while in my search to find this movie. Can anyone tell where I can get this movie to buy known in some parts of the world as Cry Onion or Cibollero, El or Cipollaro, Il or Locos del oro negro, Los (Spain). If you know this movie's title as something different please let me know that as well. Help! send me an email @ [email protected]. Thanks!

Unbelievable! Where to start with this one? Well, let's start with the casting. You would think Enzo G. Castellari would have cast Terence Hill (or even Bud Spencer) in this slapstick western - after all, those are the two actors you usually think of in this particular vein. But action superstar FRANCO NERO?!? Not only that, giving him a Donald Sutherland perm? The English dubbers take it even further by giving Nero a voice that sounds like a senile Jimmy Stewart. Still, Nero is clearly game for such an atypical part, throwing himself into all the slapstick, and he's clearly having fun. He's fun to watch as a result, though what he gets to do is so goofball at times that part of you can't help but also laugh at the idea that Nero today may be regretting taking place in all this nonsense.Actually, the bizarre casting of Nero is actually one of the saner parts of this movie. You won't believe what goes on here. A henchman in this western setting that looks and speaks like Hitler! Two kids (named Al Capone and Dutch Schultz!) who are dubbed with adult voices! A villain with a robotic hand! Nero eating onions like apples! A motorcycle gang! The death of one character shown in reverse! Speeded-up action scenes a la the Keystone Kops! And all done with what seems to have been a hefty budget! Most people will hate this movie, simply calling it stupid. Well, maybe it is stupid. But personally I found it extremely entertaining because of its entirely bizarre nature. The movie never stops delivering wacky situations, each different from the other, and my attention was always held - I couldn't wait to see what new kind of insanity the movie would next pull out of its sleeves. If you like the antics of Terence Hill/Bud Spencer movies, and are accustomed to the unconventional tone many Italian mass-entertainment movies have, give it a look. Like it or hate it, you'll NEVER forget it!

I'm sorry for Enzo G. Castellari. This very professional director, very able in stunt scenes and car pursuit, that sometimes in his movies lives for itself, have made this Trinità clone with Franco Nero copying Terence Hill. Is not a bad work 'cause Castellari knows his job but is excessively derivative and I think that in the career of a popular director wasn't a necessary step.