His career spanned five decades and included such works as The Fox, The Brotherhood, The Mechanic, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Resurrection, and The Great Santini.
[8] In October 1963, it was reported that Carlino would adapt Jackson Donahue's novel The Confessor for producer Edward Lewis and director Frankenheimer as part of a one-off picture deal for The Mirisch Corporation.
[10] Grand Prix, a drama about the turbulent lives of racecar drivers, was to be directed by Frankenheimer using the new Cinerama single-lens process, and based on an original screenplay by Carlino.
[10] By September 1965, when the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract for Grand Prix was finally concluded, Robert Alan Aurthur had replaced Carlino as screenwriter for the $9,000,000-budgeted film.
[11][12] In October 1965, Douglas and Lewis Productions announced that it had secured a one-picture financing and distribution deal with Warner Brothers Pictures for The Hoods.
Another property acquired around this time by Douglas and Lewis Productions was Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, with Carlino assigned to write the screenplay.
[26] The film tells the story of a United States Marine Corps Officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father.
The film stars Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky, Julie Anne Haddock, Brian Andrews, Stan Shaw, and David Keith.