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"The Last Detail" is a sadly overlooked but superb blend of pathos, ribald bittersweet humor, hard-edged '70s realism and insightful and subtle human drama, one that brashly and subtly brought back many personal memories of my Navy hitch and a work that says something to all of us by merely focusing upon a small "detail" of a sadly overlooked ...
Two sailors are selected to escort a young emotionally withdrawn recruit from their West Virginia base to a prison in Massachusetts for stealing from the polio charity box. Won over by the young recruit's bumbling ways and the difficulty of his plight, the two hardened sailors show him a good time before his long stay in the brig.
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Randy Quaid. Actor: Independence Day. Randy Quaid is an Academy Award-nominated actor, for his performance in The Last Detail (1973). Hal Ashby directed Quaid in the role of Meadows opposite Jack Nicholson and Otis Young. Quaid is a great and much-admired actor that has been recognized by Hollywood and the world's finest directors, Midnight ...
The result of their collaboration was The Last Detail, the 1973 comedy-drama that tells the story of two Navy officers assigned to escort a sailor to jail. This poor teenage soul tried to steal forty dollars from a collection box of his Commanding Officer’s wife’s charity, and now had to face eight years in prison.
Dec 12, 1973 · The Last Detail. Two Navy lifers and one military innocent briefly attempt to thumb their nose at Authority in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973). Badass Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Mule Mulhall (Otis Young) are assigned to escort young sailor Meadows (Randy Quaid, who beat out John Travolta for the part) from their Virginia base to a New ...
Apr 25, 2008 · A 1973 film starring Jack Nicholson, directed by Hal Ashby (Shampoo). Also featuring Otis Young and a very young Randy Quaid. Very, very funny with an unde...
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