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The Last Detail (Blu-ray, 2020)

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Jack Nicholson and Randy Quaid star as sailors in search of a good time in this American comedy drama directed by Hal Ashby. Career sailors Buddusky (Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young) are given the task of escorting Seaman Meadows (Quaid) to Portsmouth Naval Prison where he is facing a long sentence. The two sailors, feeling guilty about his gloomy prospects, decide to show him a good time before he goes down. What follows is an odyssey of drinking, fighting, womanising and all-round bad behaviour. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role (Nicholson), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Quaid) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material from Another Medium.

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Tale of two U.S. Navy petty officers who are ordered to escort a kleptomaniac from one prison to another.

Product Identifiers

ProducerGerald Ayres

EAN5060697920741

eBay Product ID (ePID)22048557940

Product Key Features

ActorRandy Quaid, Jack Nicholson, Clifton James, Otis Young, Carol Kane

Film/TV TitleThe Last Detail

DirectorHal Ashby

LanguageEnglish

Run Time104 Mins

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2020

Features(Standard Edition)

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerJohnny Mandel

Production DesignerMichael Haller

ReviewsSight and Sound - ..[A] therapeutic and nicely wrought blow at the authorities...

Additional InformationIn THE LAST DETAIL the winning combination of director Hal Ashby, screenwriter Robert Towne, and actor Jack Nicholson turned an unheralded novel by Darryl Ponicsan into one of the first of what are now thought of as the classic films of the1970s. Navy lifers Badass Budduskey (Nicholson) and Mule Mulhall (Otis Young) are given a week to escort a teenage petty thief, Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid), from Virginia to the naval penitentiary in Maine. Their plan to bring him there quickly, and spend the remaining time having a good time themselves, changes when they come to sympathize with the naive Meadows. He's clearly an uncontrollable kleptomaniac given an unjust sentence, so they decide to include him in their plans. But as they escort him through the entire sixties scene, from bars, brawls, and drug-addled parties to a visit to a prostitute (Carol Kane), they come to feel that showing him the world he'll be missing in prison might not be the act of kindness they intended.<BR>The film features a breakthrough performance by Nicholson. The killer smile, quick anger, and antiestablishment attitude that brought him stardom in CHINATOWN is well controlled by Ashby's direction. He never lets Nicholson steal the show. The balance with Quaid's and Young's strong performances makes for a very moving character-based dramatic comedy.

ScreenwriterRobert Towne

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Last Detail

EditorRobert C. Jones

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