Robert Towne and The Last Detail

We recently lost one of the greats of screenwriting, Robert Towne. His resume is almost cartoonishly good, and his influence on the craft of screen writing cannot be measured. This week, in addition to discussing the career of Robert Towne, we will be discussing his criminally overlooked, "The Last Detail," starring Jack Nicholson as a career Navy signalman on Shore Patrol escorting a prisoner. Let's see how accurate a movie that was criticized because the characters, "swore like sailors," while playing sailors is.