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The Last Detail(Movie, 1973)

1h 45min | Genres: Comedy, Drama
The Last DetailRating: 3.5/5 (with 152152 votes)
The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, from a screenplay by Robert Towne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, and Carol Kane. It follows two career sailors assigned to escort a young emotionally withdrawn recruit from their Virginia base to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Maine. The Last Detail was theatrically released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on December 12, 1973. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Nicholson and Quaid, as well as Towne's screenplay. It was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, three Academy Awards, and four British Academy Film Awards (winning two). ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Last Detail

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role BAFTA Award for Best Film

About The Last Detail

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 19 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/15/1975 (World premiere: 12/11/1973)
Director: Hal Ashby
Producer: Gerald Ayres
Screenwriter: Robert Towne, Darryl Ponicsan
Film Editor: Robert C. Jones
Director of Photography: Michael Chapman
Composer: Johnny Mandel
Production Designer: Michael Haller
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A última missão"
"Das letzte Kommando"
"El último deber"
"La dernière corvée"
"L'ultima corvè"
"Hun Laatste Corvee"
"O último dever"

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