The Last Detail Page #4

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. His great crime was to try to steal forty dollars from the admiral's wife's pet charity. For this, he's been sentenced to eight years behind bars. At first, Buddusky and Mulhall view the journey as a paid vacation, but their holiday spirits are quickly depressed by the prisoner, who looks prepared to break into tears at any moment. And he has the lowest self-image imaginable. Buddusky gets it into his head to give Meadows a good time and teach him a bit about getting on in the world. Lesson one: Don't take every card life deals you. Next, he teaches Meadows to drink, and, as a coup de grace, finds a nice young whore to instruct him in lovemaking. Mule, who worries aloud about his own position with military authority, seems pleased wit
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Hal Ashby
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
89
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
1973
104 min
1,172 Views


Come on, kid! Jesus Christ!

Did you see that cracker a**hole?

"The law says that I got to serve him,

but I..."

I thought he'd have a heart attack.

- Scared the sh*t out of him!

- He was scared!

He was ready to go!

He was gone!

I'd like to drink a toast to Batman...

...Superman...

...and the Human Torch!

What's a Human Torch?

A pure, white, Southern American boy.

The Human Torch...

...when he goes like this...

...he throws a ball of flames

up on you...

...and the f***ing building

goes up in an explosion.

And he had a littler guy

that flies around with him.

The best goddamn drink

in the world, isn't it?

Maybe we can sneak it on the train

and finish it off there.

Know what I mean?

The train left

What?

The train left 15 minutes ago.

Well, that's nice! That's f***ing nice!

For Christ's sake,

give me a break!

We got five days.

We're on per diem.

I say what we do...

...is check into a hotel...

...hoist up a few more...

...have a good night's sleep.

Tomorrow we get on the train.

Sunday.

What the f*** are you laughing at?

Laughing at that silly

son of a b*tch over there.

That's what I'm laughing at.

Come on...

...let's get ourselves into...

I got to go to the bathroom!

...a hotel room.

Wonderful idea.

Prisoner...

...on your feet.

Come on.

Cheer up!

Ain't this the life, Mule?

It sure beats freezing your ass

in the alley, don't it?

Beats the hell out of being

back in Sh*t City too, don't it?

I bet it even beats being

at Portsmouth too.

You know, kid...

...you got a hell of a knack for

killing a conversation.

Just imagine that your hands...

...are the hands of a clock.

"A"...

...is twenty to six.

"B"...

...quarter to six.

"C"...

...ten to six.

"D"...

...straight up six o'clock...

Come on, man!

We're watching the movie.

Meadows, you want to learn

how to be a signalman?

After the movie, man!

I always tell a new

semaphore personality this...

...to ensure that you send

a more perfect semaphore.

Ready?

I don't expect you to get it perfect.

This just happens to require

a great deal of manual dexterity.

All right.

That was very good, Meadows.

Very good indeed.

You must have a flair for this

sort of thing.

Some people do.

I do, for instance.

I have a flair for this sort of thing.

We got it.

We f***ing got it, boys.

Here it is.

The truck that...

Very nice catch.

The truck that made your mama's son.

Motherfucking Jesus H. Christ!

You guys mind if I say something?

That guy at the bar...

...why did you get so mad at him?

I don't blame him

not giving me a beer.

Don't you never get mad at nobody?

Yeah, sure. I do. Yeah.

Who do you get mad at?

Well, not at somebody

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Robert Towne

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. His most notable work was his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest movie screenplays ever written. He also wrote its sequel The Two Jakes in 1990, and wrote the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973), and Shampoo (1975), as well as the first two Mission Impossible films (1996, 2000). more…

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