Full Metal Jacket Schneider alleged that Kubrick took the cinematic idea of a recruit being broken down in boot camp and driven to suicide from the epic film series "The Human Condition" (1959–1961). Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, under the alias "Abigail Mead", wrote the film's score. According to an interview, which appeared in the January 1988 issue of "Keyboard", the film was scored mostly with a Fairlight CMI synthesizer (the then-current Series III edition) and a Synclavier. For the period music, Kubrick went through "Billboard" list of Top 100 Hits for each year from 1962 to 1968 and tried many songs, but "sometimes
The Rainbow Jacket The Rainbow Jacket The Rainbow Jacket is a 1954 British Ealing Studios drama film, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and featuring Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Honor Blackman and Sid James. A champion jockey, having forfeited his own career by taking a bribe, takes a young rider under his wing. The film premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on 27 May 1954, and the reviewer for "The Times" wrote that, ""It is, then, an entertaining film, a film in love with racing and yet not quite so devotedly so as to refrain from suggesting