The Last Detail
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Oct 15, 2026
WilsonHOST
And I will say this.
WilsonHOST
Hey, watch Last Detail and then watch Kingpin.
WilsonHOST
That's two different guys.
WilsonHOST
That guy's a good actor.
WilsonHOST
That's two different guys.
WilsonHOST
You're not going to go, oh, my God, this is Randy Quaid.
WilsonHOST
He plays such an innocent in Kingpin and also in Last Detail, but two totally different innocents.
WilsonHOST
Yeah.
Norm WilnerHOST
Mm-hmm
Kent JonesGUEST
... alienated antihero, you know, beginning with E-- from Easy Rider through Five Easy Pieces, uh, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which came out later in the year, in the same year as The Passenger, um, to a degree, Chinatown, you know, uh, The Last Detail.
Kent JonesGUEST
You, you, you know, he's, he's someone who really defined that in, in a very eloquent way.
Kent JonesGUEST
I think that his presence alone just sort of like speaks to it, but also he was an actor, um, is an actor.
Travis RoyHOST
Yeah.
Eric BrandstromHOST
Um, yeah, The Last Detail.
Eric BrandstromHOST
I've been wanting to watch The Last Detail-
Travis RoyHOST
Oh
Eric BrandstromHOST
... and Push Me Es for a long time.
AJ BlackHOST
Mm.
Guy WalkerGUEST
Like your Woody Allen films or The Last Detail or the Pythons.
AJ BlackHOST
Mm.
Guy WalkerGUEST
You know, you wouldn't really have too much of these sort of comedies anymore really.
JasonHOST
Listen to this.
JasonHOST
Uh, before The Lost Boys he did a film called The Last Detail in 1973, uh, and then he worked with our friend Marty Scorsese in '76 for Taxi Driver, Invasion of the Body Snatchers in '78, Raging Bull with Marty again in '80.
JasonHOST
Um, after this film he went on and did Scrooged, which is one of-
ScottHOST
I love Scrooged
Trace SeverHOST
That was actually not a bad movie.
Jesse NussmanHOST
It's, it's like somewhat related to The Last Detail, and so, like, Cranston's, like, kind of doing a Nicholson impersonation, and it's, like, not very effective.
Jesse NussmanHOST
Um, the...
Jesse NussmanHOST
I don't know.
Marty SchwartzHOST
...
Marty SchwartzHOST
the guy who wrote Chinatown, The Last Detail, and the first two Mission Impossibles.
Marty SchwartzHOST
I mean, this is...
Marty SchwartzHOST
These are two huge heavy hitters.
Tony BurkeHOST
I haven't seen it for a million years, but I remember it being really good.
John SpearsHOST
Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, a military movie about Schmidt.
John SpearsHOST
I never saw about Schmidt.
John SpearsHOST
You get a little naked Kathy Bates.
Frank BermanGUEST
...
Frank BermanGUEST
Linklater, oh, definitely, yeah, with The Last Detail.
Frank BermanGUEST
Um, but like I said, this is like a big piece that's missing from the drafts.
Frank BermanGUEST
I mean, we d- guys done Altman, Coppola too, and it's just leaving Hal Ashby out with his catalog, I mean, I don't know if you ever seen the documentary Hal though, but I'm gonna tiptoe...
Frank BermanGUEST
I shouldn't say tiptoe, but, um, but following what they said is that, you know, I would take Hal Ashby's '70s catalog over anyone else's catalogs.
Frank BermanGUEST
I mean, The Landlord, uh, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, you name it.
Frank BermanGUEST
It just goes on and on there.
Frank BermanGUEST
And we, then we get to the '80s, which is completely different.
Aaron SousaHOST
He was offered the role of Robert Redfor- as Hooker, um, and turned it down.
Aaron SousaHOST
He said, "I had enough business acumen to know The Sting was going to be a huge hit, but at the same time, Chinatown and The Last Detail were more interesting films for me." Um, and to that I say, Jack, I'm not sure if you knew The Sting was going to be a hit [laughs] because looking back on it, doesn't really seem like a hit movie.
Connor JamiesonHOST
I mean, on one hand, I could, I could see him being like, okay, you know, you got, uh, I, I f- literally forgot the director's name.
Connor JamiesonHOST
Uh-
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Connor JamiesonHOST
It was also one of those ones where, like, he was due, and it was, like, a good performance, so it was just kinda like the fates aligned on that one.
Aaron SousaHOST
Yeah.
Aaron SousaHOST
Um, other nominated performance that year, Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris, Jack Nicholson for The Last Detail, Al Pacino in Serpico, and Robert Redford for The Sting.
Aaron SousaHOST
So like, holy shit, [laughs] what a loaded year.
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