The Last Detail (1973)

  This isn't a particularly good movie, but it's one of the few Jack Nicholson films I hadn't seen, so now that's crossed off.  I'm pretty sure the only reason Rob downloaded it was because it was about the Navy, in which he had a professional interest.  Nicholson and co-star Randy Quaid both received Oscar nominations for this, which in Quaid's case I completely understand but not in Nicholson's.  I think at that point the Academy was just nominating him for everything.

A young sailor named Meadows (Randy Quaid) is being sent to the brig (that's Navy jail) for an eight-year sentence over a trivial offense.  Two senior non-commissioned officers (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young) are given the detail of escorting Meadows to prison.  Along the way, they decide to give the kid a final hurrah so that he has some fond memories to hold him over for the next eight years.  They proceed to drink, smoke and fuck their way up the East Coast, growing more and more sympathetic to the kid's plight along the journey.

Carol Kane is in this and holy shit, she is a tiny elfin sprite of a woman.  According to some math I just did, she was 21-years-old when she did this film and could probably have passed for fifteen.  Her character's name is Young Whore and she's topless, if you're interested, which you shouldn't be.  It might be the first time I've ever heard her real voice without an exaggerated accent.  70's comedienne Gilda Radnor is in this as well, but in a non-speaking kind of background role.  Like I said, this isn't a great film but it's interesting as an artifact.