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.
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
- 7.0
- 1973
- Released
- 1h 44m
Jack Nicholson
SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky
Otis Young
GM1 'Mule' Mulhall
Randy Quaid
Seaman Larry Meadows
Clifton James
M. A. A.
Carol Kane
Young Whore
Michael Moriarty
Marine O. D.
Kathleen Miller
Annette
Nancy Allen
Nancy
Gerry Salsberg
Henry
Luana Anders
Donna
Patricia Hamilton
Madame
Gilda Radner
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Don McGovern
Bartender
Derek McGrath
Nichiren Shoshu MemberJim Horn
Nichiren Shoshu MemberJohn Castellano
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Released
en
$2,300,000.00
$10,000,000.00
- #washington dc, usa
- #based on novel or book
- #u.s. navy
- #road trip
- #maine
- #convict
- #prison sentence
- #sailor
- #train travel
- #shore patrol
- #buddy movie
- #prisoner escort
Reviews
"Meadows" (Randy Quaid) got caught trying to steal $40 from a charity box and so was kicked out of the US Navy and sent down for eight years! Charged with getting him to the jail are two veteran chancers "Buddusky" (Jack Nicholson) and "Mule" (Otis Young). These two think this is all just a bit of a lark that will get them away from the grind, but they haven't bargained on their prisoner. He comes
**_Slice-of-life drama about post-Vietnam military guys on the eastern home front_** Two Petty Officers in Norfolk, Virginia (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young), are assigned a shore patrol detail to escort a naïve 18-year-old Seaman (Randy Quaid) to Portsmouth Naval Prison just across the coastal border of Maine. They decide to give the ‘kid’ a good time in several misadventures along the way.