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Release Date:
12 December 1973 (USA)
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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.
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Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 3 Oscars.
Another 5 wins
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6 nominations
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Hal Ashby's classic
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jack Nicholson | ... | SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky | |
| Otis Young | ... | GM1 'Mule' Mulhall | |
| Randy Quaid | ... | Seaman Larry Meadows | |
| Clifton James | ... | M.A.A. | |
| Carol Kane | ... | Young Whore | |
| Michael Moriarty | ... | Marine O.D. | |
| Luana Anders | ... | Donna | |
| Kathleen Miller | ... | Annette | |
| Nancy Allen | ... | Nancy | |
| Gerry Salsberg | ... | Henry | |
| Don McGovern | ... | Bartender | |
| Pat Hamilton | ... | Madame | |
| Michael Chapman | ... | Taxi Driver | |
| Jim Henshaw | ... | Sweek | |
| Derek McGrath | ... | Nichiren Shoshu Member |
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103 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Singapore:M18 (cut) |
Netherlands:16 |
Australia:R |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16 |
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The phrase said in the The Last Detail (1973) "let's shag ass" was later used in the film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, prayer beads include two strands which hang on the left hand and three strands on the right while chanting with palms pressed together. When Donna is seen in profile chanting for Meadows, her prayer beads appear opposite from the correct arrangement with three strands on the left hand.
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Features Castle Keep (1969)
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Soundtrack:
Bad Ass Blues
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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.