The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

  • Director: Robert Wise
  • Writer: Richard McKenna,Robert Anderson
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Mandarin
  • Release date: December 20, 1966
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Kanonenboot am Yangtse-Kiang
  • "Sao Paulo Gunboat" is a feature film directed by Robert Wise , starring Steve McQueen , Richard Attenborough , Sammo Hung , Han Yingjie , Wang Jingchun , Paul Chun and others. It was released in the United States on December 20, 1966.
    The film mainly tells the story of an American gunboat sailing to China in 1925. 

    Details

    • Release date December 20, 1966
    • Filming locations USS Texas - 3523 Independence Pkwy, La Porte, Texas, USA
    • Production companies Argyle Enterprises, Solar Productions, Robert Wise Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $12,000,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Skyla 2022-10-03 22:29:08

      If I say, cover your face and cry when you see the middle, is it a bit 13

      This is a Chinese translation. I borrowed randomly from the community library. Still rely on English subtitles.
      The movie lasts 2 hours and 55 minutes. There is still a break in between. Watching the first half of the episode, the heartache is unbearable. Burst into tears.
      Baidu’s introduction said,
      “The film uses an American gunboat sailing to China in 1925 as the storytelling stage. The protagonist Heman is a seaman on the boat and likes to hide in the engine room on the ground...

    • By Curtis 2022-10-03 19:09:52

      Review of the Sand Pebbles

      An American friend recommended me to watch this film, and there is also the painted veil. This is the reply after watching:

      Dear Jim,

      Thank you for the movies you lent me. Both are great
      movies. But if I were American, I would enjoy it more
      because these movies are very American in the way
      heroes are defined and made.

      But as a Chinese, Sand Pebbles sometimes upsets me
      because it seems to make Chinese look like nothing but
      mobs who twist...

    User comments

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    • By Jeff 2023-09-19 22:42:04

      [3.5/5.0] This film has been instilling the concept that Jiang Kaixue is the savior of the powerful people, only the final offensive and defensive battle is...

    • By Gabriel 2023-09-15 15:38:29

      Too interesting, the kind that is worth writing a paper. . . There is a sense of emptiness like the teacher of the dead, if you compare it with a recent...

    • By Cordelia 2023-08-04 15:38:13

      See the big from the small, transparent. Disillusionment again and again, in the end, it was all useless (rescue Louis Malle's later wife is probably a commercial consideration) I don't know who added Sammo Hung to the cast list, but I didn't see it at all, nor on...

    • By Cesar 2023-07-31 05:20:11

      The story of the mutual slaughter between sailors of a flamboyant American gunboat and the soldiers and civilians of the Northern...

    • By Nikolas 2023-07-27 05:56:04

      The sea battle scenes and endings are excellent. The director focuses more on literary drama, starting from the perspective of Holman, through this unflattering middleman, and exploring the impact of war on places and people from a cultural perspective. The love line is weak and overall a bit...

    Movie plot

    The protagonist Herman is a seaman on the boat. He likes to work in the engine room on the ground floor. Unexpectedly, after the gunboat stationed in China, he forced him to jump on the deck to deal with political and cultural pressures from various quarters. The development of the complex situation changed his independent personality. The whole film has the style of an epic movie, a melee of a Chinese galleon is unique and impressive,...
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    Evaluation action

    In the film "The Sand Pebbles", the coolies working on gunboats on the Yangtze River (the film’s story is set to be China in the 1930s) is portrayed from a sympathetic perspective. However, this film still seriously distorted historical facts, wrongly portraying China's social environment as "full of hostility towards Westerners."
    In the film, while rescuing a Western missionary kidnapped by the local Chinese, the gunboat was also...
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    Movie quotes

    • Captain Collins: Do you know what this is? Desertion in the face of the enemy.

      Jake Holman: I don't got no more enemies. Shove off, Captain.

    • Jameson: If they obey orders then the Navy takes care of them. It's a way of life that appeals to a certain kind of man.

    • Captain Collins: [addressing the assembled crew of the USS "San Pablo"] Today we begin cruising to show the flag on Tungting Lake and the Hunan Rivers. I want all honours rendered smartly. At home in America, when today reaches them, it'll be Flag Day. For us who wear the uniform, every day is Flag Day. It is said there will be no more wars. We must pretend to believe that. But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock, and buy time with our lives. It is we who keep the faith. We serve the flag. The trade we all follow is the give-and-take of death. It is for that purpose that the people of America maintain us. Any one of us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage, is a thief of the food he eats, and a trespasser in the bunk in which he lies down to sleep.

      Captain Collins: [turns to his Executive Officer] Mr Bordelles, make preparations for getting underway.