The Last Detail (1973) (Limited Edition to 3000)

[Akijama]

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“A salty, bawdy, hilarious, and very touching story about two career sailors escorting to a naval prison a dumb boot sentenced for petty thievery. Jack Nicholson is outstanding at the head of a superb cast.”
– Variety

“The Last Detail is one superbly funny, uproariously intelligent performance, plus two others that are very, very good, which are so effectively surrounded by profound bleakness that it seems to be a new kind of anti-comedy.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson as the arrogant and salty (but feeling) sailor who tries to stay in charge of the odyssey.”
– Time Out London

Jack Nicholson stars, fabulously, in this Hal Ashby-directed film about a tough sailor assigned to take a young doofus (Randy Quaid) to naval prison. Also starring Otis Young as the third member of the nautical trio, with a sterling screenplay by the singular Robert Towne (Chinatown) and music by the wonderful Johnny Mandel (“The Shadow of Your Smile”), available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

Limited Edition of 3,000 Units.

LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.85:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1973
Color
104 MINUTES
RATED R

Special Features: Isolated Score Track / Original Theatrical Trailer

Source

Hal Ashby, Otis Young and Jack Nicholson © RR

The Last Detail directed by Hal Ashby earned Jack Nicholson his first award: the Best Actor Award at the 1974 Festival de Cannes. In it, he plays the role of a badass naval officer sporting tattoos and a moustache.


The Last Detail is a relatively unsung classic directed by Hal Ashby starring a Jack Nicholson who was already famous at the time, but had not yet attained stardom. Nicholson’s career first took off following his appearance in the cult film, Easy Rider (1969). It then received a major boost when he starred in the equally cult Chinatown (1974), followed by The Passenger and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the following year, the latter of which earned him his first Oscar.


During this highly prolific period in his film career, Nicholson managed to squeeze in shooting The Last Detail. In it, he plays the role of a badass naval officer who is charged, along with a colleague just like him (Otis Young), with the task of escorting a young seaman suffering from kleptomania from the naval base in Norfolk to a prison in Portsmouth, where the latter is to serve out an eight year sentence. The two officers make friends with the 18 year old kid in their charge and decide to show him one last good time en route to jail: This includes going ice skating at Radio City and stopping by the brothels of Greenwich Village.


The Last Detail was directed by Hal Ashby, who has been somewhat overshadowed by other great names of 70s American cinema, despite bringing out a series of excellent films – The Landlord, Harold and Maude, Bound for Glory, Coming Home and Being There – which marked the history of cinema and influenced a good number of filmmakers including Judd Apatow, Alexander Payne and Wes Anderson.

The Last Detail Theatrical Trailer - YouTube

[MovieDood]

Thank you as always, Akijama!

[balthazar_bee]

Time to call the shore patrol.

[obscurelabel]

This is a great movie. Wonderful news.

I hope somebody will release Cinderella Liberty, another Darryl Ponicsan novel adaptation (he wrote the screenplay for this one too). I saw it for the first time recently and it has that same wonderful 1970s gritty, seedy feel. Marsha Mason and especially James Caan are great in it.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by balthazar_bee

Time to call the shore patrol.

Buddusky IS the motherfuking shore patrol, motherfuker!

[Brad1963]

Yes! The Last Detail made it out of Mill Creek Hell! Now bring on Panic Room and Postcards from the Edge.

[buffetfroid]

I guess this is one I'll pay $30 for

[Alfredlynch]

Great movie! Finally. One of the last great 70s movies missing a release.

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Yes! The Last Detail made it out of Mill Creek Hell!

My first thought too, Also, I'm surprised, since the movie was up for grabs, that Criterion haven't picked it up. Their loss.

This is another Sony 4k restoration, and it should look fantastic. Great acquisition by TT. Seems like a great movie.

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/assets...ect/049029.pdf

[alexpeden2000]

Excellent news, glad it's been remastered as the old one for the dvd/HDTV version was in horrible condition

[balthazar_bee]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Great acquisition by TT. Seems like a great movie.

Oh, it is. I've seen this baby at least fifteen times. Spontaneously hilarious and authentically moving without being maudlin in the least, and featuring what might be my favourite Jack Nicholson performance. Part of his golden run of films from the early 70s.

[RobertLuketic]

Just saw the announcement... I'm psyched!

[javi92]

I'm all over this. I just wish TT didn't have such good taste sometimes. It's detrimental to my pocketbook.

[alexpeden2000]

Hopefully we see Scarecrow (1973) soon as well - another great film from that era that needs a blu-ray release...

[SammyJankis]

I've been waiting for this one. Might be my favorite Ashby.

[BagheeraMcGee]

This is one of my favorite Nicholson performances, so I definitely plan on getting this as well as "Bound For Glory". And since it's a Columbia release, I wonder if TT will go for an "Ashby Trifecta" with "Shampoo".

[Kainefu]

Hell yeah. This is my joint. Saw this back in the day at the Film Forum in the East Vill. Great flick.

[murphywmm]

The cheapskate in me was hoping Mill Creek would have released this when they had it...

[rdodolak]

[malakaheso]

This deserves to be on Criterion and/Eureka.