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James Carabatsos is known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Hamburger Hill (1987) and No Mercy (1986).
Feb 9, 1985 · Carabatsos, 39, could prove one of the first Vietnam veterans now working as a Hollywood scriptwriter to get his vision of the war into movie houses across the nation.
James Carabatsos is known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Hamburger Hill (1987) and No Mercy (1986).
Sep 5, 2017 · Vietnam veteran Jim Carabatsos’ script for Hamburger Hill, about the May 1969 battle at Ap Bia Mountain, bounced around Hollywood for years before producer Marcia Nasatir took it up, in part because her son had fought in Vietnam.
Aug 28, 1987 · Unlike ''Platoon,'' which does pretty much the same thing, ''Hamburger Hill,'' written by Jim Carabatsos, refuses to put its characters and events into any larger frame.
Screenplay writer and coproducer Jim Carabatsos effectively portrays the camaraderie and courage of these grunts who follow orders and fall like flies in repeated assaults as they battle to capture more turf on real estate they nickname Hamburger Hill.
Everything felt very real, mainly because the filmmakers—including the screenwriter and co-producer Jim Carabatsos, who served in Vietnam—got the official blessing of the Pentagon and all the hardware was real.
