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Released
1973 · FILM

The Last Detail

Two Navy petty officers tasked with delivering a young sailor to prison set out to grant him one last night of freedom, but their reckless quest pits them against military authority and forces them to confront the cost of compassion.

“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.”

Directed by
Hal Ashby
Written by
Robert Towne, Darryl Ponicsan
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Two Navy officers are assigned to transport a juvenile delinquent to a correctional facility, but instead choose to take him on one final enjoyable excursion before his incarceration.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert C JonesShot by Michael ChapmanScored by Johnny MandelDesigned by Michael D Haller

Box Office

1973 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.0M

Budget$2.3M
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das letzte Kommandode
  • El último deberes
  • La Dernière Corvéefr
  • L'ultima corvèit

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