Full Metal Jacket discarded that in favor of a film about the Vietnam War. They met in England, and the director told Herr that he wanted to do a war film but had yet to find a story to adapt. Kubrick discovered Gustav Hasford's novel "The Short-Timers" (1979) while reading the "Virginia Kirkus Review." Herr received it in bound galleys and thought that it was a masterpiece. In 1982, Kubrick read the novel twice, concluding that it "was a unique, absolutely wonderful book", and decided, along with Herr, to adapt it for his next film. According to Kubrick, he was drawn to the
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