“This movie really captures what it felt like to be in the Navy.” When I rented “The Last Detail” from the video store and brought it home, that’s what my Pops told me. The movie, which celebrates its ...

Hal Ashby’s “The Last Detail” depicts humanity at its most generous and vital. Two Navy “lifers” Billy “Badass” Buddusky (Jack Nicholson in one of his all-time greatest performances) and Richard “Mule ...

In the long dream of American cinema, Hal Ashby occupies a strange and haunted room — off the hallway of the greats, cluttered with forgotten scripts, bong water and the heavy air of things once ...

Robert Towne, who won an Oscar for his Chinatown original screenplay and was nominated for his Shampoo, The Last Detail and Greystoke scripts, died Monday at his home. He was 89. PR firm McClure & ...

Two bawdy, tough looking navy lifers - "Bad-Ass" Buddusky, and "Mule" Mulhall - are commissioned to escort a young pilferer named Meadows to the brig in Portsmouth. Meadows is not much of a thief.

Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter known for his work on the films “Chinatown” and “The Last Detail,” has died. He was 89. Towne “passed away peacefully at home” on Monday, according to an ...