Full Metal Jacket book's showing his eventual domination over Animal Mother. The film also omits the death of the character Rafterman. Jenkins believed this allowed viewers to reflect on Rafterman's personal growth in the film and speculate on his future growth after the war. Jenkins also believed Rafterman's death would not have fit the plot of the screenplay. Notes Full Metal Jacket Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed, co-written, and produced by Stanley Kubrick and starring Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin. The screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford was based on Hasford's novel
The Gunfighters (1987 film) The Gunfighters (1987 film) The Gunfighters is a 1987 television Western film, starring Art Hindle and George Kennedy, directed by Clay Borris. Two brothers and a cousin are trying to make a go of their ranch in Kansas. Deke Turner (George Kennedy), someone who wants to see them fail, is doing everything he can to see that happen. The younger brother, during an argument with someone who works for Turner, he kills him in self-defense, but Turner makes it appear that he killed an unarmed man. The younger brother is then urged by his brother to run. When he is