The Last Detail
"Don't you ever get mad at nobody? Don't you ever just wanna whomp and stomp on someone, bite off their ear, just to do it--just to get it out of your system?" So asks Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973), the story of two Shore Patrol sailors who escort an essentially innocent man to an eight-year stint in jail. But who's really in jail--and can someone escape? Mike and Dan have a great time talking about this "musical without music" in which the characters try to rise above the small-minded, petty people whom they encounter while fighting for their liberty. So open a Schlitz, slam that pistol on the bar, scream, "I AM THE M*^#$^!#(^% SHORE PATROL" and give it a listen!
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