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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
1,183 Views


who's doing their job.

Who then?

Injustice.

Bullshit!

You don't never get mad at nobody.

You're just a p*ssy.

I do too get mad.

Did you ever get mad at the old man

for what he done to you?

Well, he was just...

Doing his job.

They're going to take eight years

out of your life.

Six years. You said six.

What the f*** difference does it make?

You don't even care about it.

Hey, come on, Bad Ass.

- That don't help him.

- F*** help!

I mean, f*** fair.

F*** injustice.

Don't you ever just

want to stomp on someone...

...and bite off their ear,

just to do it?

Just to get it out of your system?

Well, I do remember something

I got mad at.

Something when I was in the brig

a marine did.

What happened? Grunts beat you up?

But that didn't get me mad.

Well, goddamn it,

what did get you mad?

This marine guard...

...he asked me if I believed

in Jesus Christ.

I said, "Yeah."

And he said that from now on...

...he was Jesus Christ,

and I shouldn't ever forget it.

What'd you do?

Did you hit him?

Can you imagine that?

That's awful!

Did you coldcock him?

He better hope the chaplain

don't catch him.

Most of the chaplains I know...

...want to stand up on the bridge

with the old man...

...and look through aviator sunglasses.

It takes a lot of dedication

to be a Navy chaplain.

Don't take diddlyshit, man!

Come on.

Come on. Come on!

Take a f***ing poke at me!

Take a poke at me. Come on.

- Come on.

- What for?

I'll punch you out...

Punch me out, you little prick!

- He won't punch you. You know that.

- I'll make him!

Bad Ass, I like you.

Yeah, I like you.

I'm taking you to jail,

motherf***er.

That ain't your fault.

Come on, Mule!

Come on, goddamn it!

Bad Ass?

Would you teach me the hand signals?

I don't give a sh*t!

One time...

...when I was down in Long Beach...

...this friend of mine

was looking for me...

...and I was up

on top of the car...

...and I pissed on his head.

Just being crazy, you know what I mean?

Don't you get crazy with me!

I think I'm going to be sick again.

How're we going to work this out?

Work what out?

Who gets what bed!

What the f*** difference does it make?

Well, I can't take...

...this sh*t indefinitely, man.

What sh*t?

Somebody's got to make a decision.

There you go.

Just remember...

...rank has it privileges.

Wait a minute.

They make them sh*t here.

What?

All we got to do is

get off the train at Philly...

...and take a bus to Camden.

What's the matter with that?

It's a couple hours.

He didn't ask to see his mother.

He wouldn't ask...

...to go to the head if he had the runs.

I'm telling you,

he wants to see his mother.

How do we know she's home?

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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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