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Finally, the The Last Detail script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Jack Nicholson movie by Hal Ashby. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of The Last Detail.
The Last Detail. Synopsis: Two bawdy, tough looking navy lifers - "Bad-Ass" Buddusky, and "Mule" Mulhall - are commissioned to escort a young pilferer named Meadows to the brig in Portsmouth. Meadows is not much of a thief. Indeed, in his late teens, he is not much of a man at all.
The Last Detail. Year: 1973. Director: Hal Ashby. Written by: Robert Towne (Screenplay), Darryl Ponicsan (Novel) Script Synopsis: Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, from a screenplay by Robert Towne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, and Carol Kane.
Towne, who would go on and only a year later pen what a lot of people call one of the best scripts ever created in Tinseltown—Chinatown, joined forces with filmmaker Hal Ashby, who needed a hit after his Harold and Maudeflunked at the box office, being too bizarre for the average cinemagoer.
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THE LAST DETAIL (Hal Ashby, 1973) is essentially a road picture, the story of two Navy Shore Patrolmen, Billy “Badass” Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Richard “Mule” Mulhall (Otis Young), who are ordered to transport an 18-year-old sailor prisoner, Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid), from their Norfolk, Virginia naval base to the Portsmouth ...
