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Dec 1, 1977 · THE SAND PEBBLES is a color film lasting about 190 minutes. The story is divided in half on this disc, and there is an intermission in the middle. The first half of The Sand Pebbles is the exciting half, while the second half is the sad and violent half. SCENERY.
The total effect of Sand Pebbles is uneven though gripping most of the way. Overlong, moderately entertaining "epic". Classic war tale suffers from unwieldly running time. Rotten Tomatoes, home of ...
The US gunboat, San Pablo, tangles with Chinese warlords on the ‘Yangtse River’ in 1926 ‘Hunan Province’, but Robert Wise ’s movie was made on the Keelung and Tam Sui Rivers at Taipei, on the northern tip of the island of Taiwan. The island of Taiwan lies 110 miles off the southeastern coast of mainland China, which lies across the ...
PG-13 3 hr 16 min Dec 20th, 1966 War, Drama. Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution ...
Critics reviews. Epic tale about the lives of crew members aboard a US gunboat, patrolling China’s Yangtze River in 1926, that eventually gets caught up in the middle of that country’s Civil War.
Set in China on the eve of revolution, the book tells the story of an old U.S. Navy gunboat, the San Pablo , and her dedicated crew of "Sand Pebbles" on patrol in the far reaches of the Yangtze River to show the flag and protect American missionaries and businessmen from bandits. The plot revolves around a newcomer to the boat, machinist's mate ...
Jun 5, 2007 · THE SAND PEBBLES is a color film lasting about 190 minutes. The story is divided in half on this disc, and there is an intermission in the middle. The first half of The Sand Pebbles is the exciting half, while the second half is the sad and violent half. SCENERY.
