The Last Detail

The Last Detail is a 1973 comedy drama film in which two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but they decide to show him one last good time along the way.
 * Directed by Hal Ashby. Written by Robert Towne, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan.

No *#@!!* Navy's going to give some poor **!!@* kid eight years in the #@!* brig without me taking him out for the time of his *#@!!* life.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

 * [to Meadows] Boy, they really stuck it to ya, didn't they, kid! Stick it in and break it off.  Up your giggy with a wah-wah brush, stick it in an' break it off.
 * [to Meadows] Welcome to the wonderful world of pussy, kid.

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

 * I hate this detail. I hate this fucking chickenshit detail!
 * [to Buddusky] I consider myself in jeopardy with you man, understand? In jeopardy.  This ain't no farewell party n' he ain't retirin'.  Understand?  He's a prisoner n' we're takin' 'im to the jailhouse.  N' you have a tendency to forget that.  You're a menace, man.  You ain't no simple shit Bad-Ass, you're a motherfuckin' menace.  But from now on, MAA can go piss up a rope!  You ain't no honcho!  N' I wanna hear no more of this horseshit psychology jive!  No more turnin' that boy's head around to prove what a fuckin' big man you are!  You're a lifer like me!  Navy's the best thing ever happened to me, n' I don't want'cha to fuck me up, y'understand?

Dialogue

 * Mulhall: We'd better catch that train.
 * Buddusky: We still got time for a beer.
 * Mulhall: Now wait a minute, man...
 * Meadows: I ain't old enough.
 * Buddusky: Ain't old enough for what?
 * Meadows: For a beer.
 * Buddusky: Everybody's old enough for a beer. Ain't that right, Mule?
 * Mulhall: Yeah.


 * Buddusky: I am the motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker! I am the motherfucking shore patrol!  Give this man a beer.
 * Meadows: I don't want a beer.
 * Buddusky: You're gonna have a fuckin' beer!


 * Meadows: Hey, you guys mind if I say somethin'? That guy at the bar, why did you get so mad at him?  I don't blame him not givin' me a beer.
 * Buddusky: Hey, don't you never get mad at nobody?
 * Meadows: Well, sure I do, yeah.
 * Mulhall: Who do you get mad at?
 * Meadows: Not at somebody who's doing their job.
 * Buddusky: Who, then?
 * Meadows: Injustice.
 * Buddusky: Bullshit! You never get mad at nobody.  You're just a pussy!
 * Meadows: I do too get mad.
 * Mulhall: Did you ever get mad at the old man for what he done to you?
 * Meadows: Well, he was just...
 * Buddusky: ...doin' his job. Hey, they're gonna take eight years outta your life, man.
 * Meadows: Six years. You said six!
 * Buddusky: Hey, what the fuck difference does it make? You don't even care about it.
 * Mulhall: Come on, Badass, that don't help him.
 * Buddusky: Fuck help, fuck fair! Fuck injustice!  Don't you ever just wanna fuckin' whomp and stomp on someone, bite off their ear, just to do it...?  I mean just to do it, just to get it out of your system?


 * Buddusky: Now don't worry about a thing. I'm hustling this guy, you understand?  I got him right where I want him.
 * Mulhall: Maybe he's hustling you.
 * Buddusky: Yeah. Maybe he is, but, uh, this is not the time to argue about because if I don't win, we don't leave New York, huh?


 * Meadows: [looking at porn] Are they really doing that when they take that picture?
 *  Buddusky: [pause] Well kid, there's more things in this life than you can possibly imagine. I knew a whore once in Wilmington.  She had a glass eye... used to take it out and wink people off for a dollar.


 * [A woman hears Meadows chanting and invites him to a party.]
 * Meadows: Drop your socks and grab your cocks, we're going to a party.
 * Buddusky: If this kid gets pussy out of this, I'll eat my fucking flat hat, man.


 * Meadows: If you're Catholic, do you think it's, uh, sacrilegious to chant?
 * Buddusky: Did it get you laid?
 * Meadows: No.
 * Buddusky: Then Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for?
 * Mulhall: Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pay for, one way or another.
 * Buddusky: Hallelujah!


 * Young Whore: Jesus Christ! That's what I call quick.
 * [Meadows has just prematurely ejaculated.]
 * Buddusky: You wanna try it again, kid?
 * Meadows: Yeah.
 * Buddusky: [to prostitute] Okay, honey.
 * Mulhall: Don't worry about it, kid... plenty more where that came from.
 * Buddusky: We got all night, kid.


 * Mulhall: You ever been married?
 * Buddusky: Not so you'd notice.


 * Meadows: After... after... well maybe it was an act for her. I mean I know she was a whore. But I think she liked me.
 * Buddusky: They got feelings just like everybody else, kid; she probably did.
 * Meadows: Well, it was real for me. That's what counts.


 * Buddusky: He don't stand a chance in Portsmouth, you know. You know that, don't you?  Goddamn grunts, kickin' the shit outta him for eight years... he don't stand a chance.
 * Mulhall: I don't want to hear about it.
 * Buddusky: "Maggot" this, "maggot" that... Marines are really assholes, you know that? It takes a certain kind of a sadistic temperament to be a Marine.

Cast

 * Jack Nicholson - Signalman First Class Billy L. "Bad Ass" Buddusky
 * Otis Young - Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall
 * Randy Quaid - Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows
 * Clifton James - M. A. A.
 * Carol Kane - Young Whore
 * Michael Moriarty - First Lieutenant Marine Duty Officer
 * Nancy Allen - Nancy
 * Gilda Radner - Nichiren Shoshu Member
 * Jim Hohn - Nichiren Shoshu Member
 * Luana Anders - Donna