The Last Detail

1973
R
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

29K

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Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973)

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Buddy Comedy Road Trip Comedy Drama

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

Director
- Hal Ashby
Writers
- Robert Towne
- Darryl Ponicsan
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

29K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Hal Ashby
Writers
- Robert Towne
- Darryl Ponicsan
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 6 wins & 9 nominations total

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The Last Detail: Ice Skating

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Trivia
The script was completed in 1970 but contained too much profanity to be shot as written. Columbia Pictures waited for two years trying to get writer Robert Towne to tone down the language. Instead, by 1972, the standards for foul language relaxed so much that all the profanity was left in.

Goofs
The MAA Master Chief is not wearing a Master-at-Arms rating badge; he is wearing a Boatswain mate rating badge.

The Master At Arms rating was disestablished in 1921, but was officially re-established on 1 August 1973. Therefore, as the story takes place, a Master Chief Boatswain's Mate being assigned the collateral duty of MAA is entirely accurate.

Quotes
Buddusky: If this guy gets pussy out of this, I'm gonna eat my fucking flat hat, man.
Mulhall: Yeah, and I'm going to start chanting too.
Meadows: [returns to table with Mulhall and Buddusky] Hey, you guys? Drop your socks and grab your cocks. We're going to a party.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Body Rock/Irreconcilable Differences/A Soldier's Story/Love Streams (1984)

Soundtracks
Never Let The Left Hand Know
by Jack Goga

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Hal Ashby's classic

If you respond to this film, you will probably go all the way and love it as much as I do. It is probably the high point of the drama of social realism started back by the like of "Marty."

It is Nicholson's film, yet Quaid and Otis Young(in his only good movie) really shine as well. It is the most heartbreaking of material played without sap or sentiment. Obscenity like this was still pretty new to movies back in 73, be sure to avoid edited T.V. versions. Reading the comments, it is sad that todays movie fans, spoonfed sledgehammer crappola, really can't respond to a drama played with the kind of subtle grace of "The Last Detail." Give it a shot. Ten out of ten.