 In a 2009 review, Dan 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.