Director Cimino was also criticized as distortedly and one-sidedly portraying all the Vietnamese characters in the film as despicable, sadistic racists and killers.During an intramural softball game in gym class, athletic student Ron Grady (Robert Rusler) hit a line drive double hat struck Jesse in the head and knocked him to the ground, while he was not paying attention and looking over at Lisa and her friend Kerry (Sydney Walsh) during archery instruction.A title from a film trailer proclaimed: "The love story no woman will ever forget!"The film's screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on he brief and unsuccessful (due to its morbid subject matter) mid-30s Broadway play (starring Tallulah Bankhead) of the same name by George Emerson Brewer, Jr." Jones drove Grimbridge to the hospital in a tow truck.At almost 8 pm in another part of town, alcoholic father of two Dr.Daniel "Dan" Challis (Tom Atkins) arrived home late to his ex-wife Linda (Nancy Kyes), with presents of plain Halloween masks for his two children.As they stand to go to he bedroom, the camera fades.In Bartlett village one afternoon, the post office is robbed, and caricatures of the townspeople are introduced.