The Last Detail Page #7

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
1,184 Views


What am I supposed to do?

I'm just trying to...

Meadows?

Meadows, open up!

Meadows, you all right?

You all right?

I consider myself in jeopardy with you.

Understand?

In jeopardy.

This ain't no farewell party,

and he ain't retiring.

Understand?

He's a prisoner, and

we're taking him to jail.

You have a tendency to forget that.

You're a menace, man!

You ain't no simple sh*t.

You're a motherfucking menace!

From now on, MAA can go

piss up a rope. You ain't no honcho!

I don't want to hear more of

this psychology jive!

No more turning his head around

to prove what a big man you are!

You're a lifer like me!

Navy's the best thing

ever happened to me.

I don't want you to f*** me up.

You understand?

- Buddusky?

- I hear you.

Do you agree?

I was just trying to show him

a good time. Know what I mean?

He can't have a good time.

It ain't in him.

- He had a good time in Washington.

- All right.

He had a good time in Washington.

Think that'll make it any

easier to pull his eight years?

It won't. It'll make it harder.

So what.

You know what I mean?

Your attention, please.

Amtrak 211 for Chicago, boarding...

...in 10 minutes at gate three.

Amtrak 211 for Chicago...

...boarding at gate three.

We go this way.

The train for Boston leaves

in two hours.

We don't leave the building until then.

Understand?

You got a quarter?

Where are you going?

Head.

All right?

Sailor looks like he's lost something.

Probably have trouble finding it

with those 13 buttons.

If I was a Marine, I wouldn't

have to f*** with no 13 buttons.

I'd just take my hat off.

Hi, boys.

- I call it karate!

- I call it motherf***er!

What's going on here?

Come on...

Wipe your nose, will you, kid?

He fought like a champ, though,

didn't he? Jesus.

Goddamn, that was great.

It was great, wasn't it?

It was great. Admit it!

Give me a little of this!

Give me just because

they call me Shine in here.

I got your greatness.

Meadows, over here...

...they have the finest Italian sausage

sandwiches in the world...

...and I'm buying.

Goddamn...

I ask you, man.

Where else in the world can you get

a sandwich like this?

And for 50 cents!

I never ate anything so good.

I ain't shitting you.

I'm going to have to have

another one of these.

I'd like a little more onions.

- Little more? There's some.

- How about some of these?

You got it.

We got to figure out what to do.

And we will.

We will.

Only we're going to do it

over a bottle of Heineken's.

What's Heineken's?

The finest beer in the world, kid.

President Kennedy used to drink it.

Goddamned Dutch soup is about all...

Double up, there.

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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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