During his time as a student at the school he made the films Nocturne and The Last Detail, both of which won Best Film awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.

Detail: Luxuria ( Lust ), in The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by Hieronymus Bosch.

Detail of Last Judgment by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari.

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.

* The Last Detail ( 1973 )

** 1974: Nominated, Best Adapted Screenplay, The Last Detail

** 1975: Won, Best Screenplay, The Last Detail and Chinatown

Among his novels two were made into motion pictures ( Cinderella Liberty and The Last Detail ).

The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jack Nicholson, with a screenplay adapted by Robert Towne from a novel of the same name by Daryl Ponicsan.

Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.

However Ashby pulled out of his deal with MGM and Nicholson suggested that they team up on Last Detail.

Nicholson was set to play Buddusky and so the casting of The Last Detail focused mainly on the roles of Mule and Meadows.

Haskell Wexler was supposed to shoot The Last Detail but he could not get a union card for an East Coast production and so Ashby asked Nestor Almendros and Gordon Willis but they were both unavailable.

By August 1973, the final cut of The Last Detail was completed and submitted to the MPAA which gave it an R rating.

The theatrical release of The Last Detail was delayed for six months while Columbia fought over the profanity issue.

Ayres persuaded Columbia to submit The Last Detail to the Cannes Film Festival.

The Last Detail was nominated for the Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and Nicholson was awarded Best Actor.

In addition, The Last Detail was nominated for two Golden Globes Awards – Nicholson for Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama and Quaid for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

" I like the idea of winning at Cannes with The Last Detail, but not getting our own Academy Award hurt real bad.

In 2006, filmmaker Richard Linklater expressed an interest in adapting Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, into a film.

* " The Last Detail " by Richard Armstrong, Senses of Cinema, April 2003.

* " The Last Detail: Beyond the call of duty " by John and Judith Hess, Jump Cut, no.

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* The Last American Hero ( 1973 )

* Hitler: The Last Ten Days, a 1973 film

* Wanderers of Time ( 1973 ) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Wanderers of Time, Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians & The Puff-ball Menace ( a. k. a. Spheres of Hell ).

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

The actor followed with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1973 film Last Tango in Paris, but the performance was overshadowed by an uproar over the sexual content of the film.

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

* The Last of Sheila ( 1973 ), a nonmusical film mystery written with Anthony Perkins.

Roy Clarke's long-running Last of the Summer Wine began in 1973.

Other chart hits by White included " Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up " (# 2 R & B, # 7 Pop in 1973 ), " Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe " (# 1 Pop and R & B in 1974 ), " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " (# 1 R & B, # 2 Pop in 1974 ), " What Am I Gonna Do with You " (# 1 R & B, # 8 Pop in 1975 ), " Let the Music Play " (# 4 R & B in 1976 ), " It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me " (# 1 R & B, # 4 Pop in 1977 ) and " Your Sweetness is My Weakness " (# 2 R & B in 1978 ).

Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973.

The Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of BBC's Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973.

* The Last of Sheila ( 1973 )

During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric — and often ironic — celebrations of traditional English culture and living: " Village Green " ( 1966 ), " Afternoon Tea " and " Autumn Almanac " ( both 1967 ), " The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains " ( 1968 ), " Victoria " ( 1969 ), " Have a Cuppa Tea " ( 1971 ) and " Cricket " ( 1973 ).

Wolfe's article was later turned into the 1973 movie The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine.

* The Last of Sheila ( 1973 )

In 1973, she appeared twice on Lorne Greene's short-lived ABC crime drama Griff, including the episode The Last Ballad, in which she portrayed Dr. Martha Reed, an abortionist held by police in the death of a patient.

Perkins co-wrote, with composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila, for which they received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

*" Had Too Much To Dream ( Last Night )" / (" Lies " by the Knickerbockers ) ( Elektra K 12102 ) 1973 ( from the Nuggets compilation ) UK

* November 12 – The record breaking, long-running comedy series in the UK and the world " Last of the Summer Wine " starts as a series on BBC1 ( the pilot had aired on 4 January 1973 ).

* January 4 – Last of the Summer Wine pilot episode, first series begins on November 12 ( 1973 – present ).