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 Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" 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 Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" 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 Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" 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

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: We'd better catch that train.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: We still got time for a beer.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Now wait a minute, man...
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: I ain't old enough.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Ain't old enough for what?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: For a beer.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Everybody's old enough for a beer. Ain't that right, Mule?
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Yeah.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: I am the motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker! I am the motherfucking shore patrol! Give this man a beer.
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: I don't want a beer.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: You're gonna have a fuckin' beer!
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" 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.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Hey, don't you never get mad at nobody?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Well, sure I do, yeah.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Who do you get mad at?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Not at somebody who's doing their job.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Who, then?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Injustice.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Bullshit! You never get mad at nobody. You're just a pussy!
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: I do too get mad.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Did you ever get mad at the old man for what he done to you?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Well, he was just...
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: ...doin' his job. Hey, they're gonna take eight years outta your life, man.
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Six years. You said six!
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Hey, what the fuck difference does it make? You don't even care about it.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Come on, Badass, that don't help him.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" 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?
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Now don't worry about a thing. I'm hustling this guy, you understand? I got him right where I want him.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Maybe he's hustling you.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" 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?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: [looking at porn] Are they really doing that when they take that picture?
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" 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.
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Drop your socks and grab your cocks, we're going to a party.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: If this kid gets pussy out of this, I'll eat my fucking flat hat, man.
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: If you're Catholic, do you think it's, uh, sacrilegious to chant?
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Did it get you laid?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: No.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Then Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for?
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pay for, one way or another.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Hallelujah!
Young Whore: Jesus Christ! That's what I call quick.
'Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows has just prematurely ejaculated.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: You wanna try it again, kid?
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Yeah.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: [to prostitute] Okay, honey.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: Don't worry about it, kid... plenty more where that came from.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: We got all night, kid.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: You ever been married?
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: Not so you'd notice.
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: After... after... well maybe it was an act for her. I mean I know she was a whore. B ut I think she liked me.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky: They got feelings just like everybody else, kid; she probably did.
Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows: Well, it was real for me. That's what counts.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" 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.
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall: I don't want to hear about it.
Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" 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.

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