Nicholson's cigar-chomping, profanity-spouting grunt is one of the greatest incarnations of stunted machismo onscreen, and he's brilliantly complemented by Quaid's picture-perfect awkwardness and Young's bracing cynicism.
The Last Detail
No *#@!!* Navy’s going to give some poor **!!@* kid eight years in the #@!* brig without me taking him out for the time of his *#@!!* life.
1973 · 1h 44m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Hal Ashby
Overview
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 and cast
- Hal Ashby Director
- Jack Nicholson as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky
- Otis Young as GM1 'Mule' Mulhall
- Randy Quaid as Seaman Larry Meadows
- Clifton James as M.A.A.
- Carol Kane as Young Whore
- Michael Moriarty as Marine O.D.
- Luana Anders as Donna
- Kathleen Miller as Annette
- Nancy Allen Cast
- Gerry Salsberg Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson.
Salty, bawdy, hilarious and very touching.
One can't help feeling that the criticism of modern America hits out at all too easy targets in a vague and muffled manner.
The Last Detail is one superbly funny, uproariously intelligent performance, plus two others that are very, very good, which are so effectively surrounded by profound bleakness that it seems to be a new kind of anti-comedy.
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