The Last Detail-DVR it tonight (I promise you won't regret it)

Jack Nicholson in his most entertaining feature role. If you like his character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you'll love this movie. Nicholson was getting by on his acting chops back then because he had yet to made a name for himself.

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Yea, that's a 23 year old Randy Quaid on his left.

Review that young guys might relate to. Ruthless Reviews

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You wouldn’t know it by looking at his last fifteen or so years of work (starting with Bat-ham, I mean Batman), but there was a time when Jack Nicholson was the single most daring and exciting actor working in Hollywood. As Matt Cale said when I told him that I had just watched The Last Detail, “Nicholson really hit his stride with that one.” Right on, brother Cale. Filmed just before Chinatown, “Jack” really lights up the screen. Not to sound like every other fricking reviewer out there, but The Last Detail is really a gem of a movie, one that you ought to discover.

Nicholson stars as Billy “Bad arse” Buddusky, a Navy lifer who is much more interested in, well, anything than the Navy. But mostly drinking, fighting and cussing. Oh, and whores. He’s teamed up with “Mule” Mulhall (Otis Young), another career sailor who also has lost the calling. The thing is, the two of them have no other skills except for being in the Navy. They are given the “chicken-shite detail” of taking a young sailor (Randy Quaid) from their base in Norfolk, Va. to a naval prison in Portsmouth, NH. Meadows (Quaid) is facing eight years behind bars. His crime? Attempting to steal $40 from a polio donation box. He’s eighteen years old. (More)

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You'll probably want to DVR as it doesn't come on until 1:30 a.m. Central.