Steve McQueen
Jake Holman
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The Sand Pebbles: Directed by Robert Wise. With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen. In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
- (16K)
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Robert Wise
- 1966-12-20
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy machinist's mate first class, aboard the fictional river gunboat USS San Pablo, on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China.
The Sand Pebbles, American war film, released in 1966, that proved controversial for its parallels to the ongoing Vietnam War (1954–75). Steve McQueen earned his only Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of an alienated and disillusioned sailor.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Lazily patrolling a Chinese backwater amid a civil war, the gunboat gets a new engineer, Jake Holman (Steve McQueen). Jake has been a rebel and has a history of numerous transfers. Jake is despised by almost all the crew mates except by Frenchy Burgoyne (Richard Attenborough).
Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough tunneled out of a World War II prison camp together in The Great Escape, scoring a major hit in the process, so pairing them again in The Sand Pebbles made excellent sense three years later.
- Robert Wise, Ridgeway Callow, Charles Maguire
- Steve Mcqueen
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The Sand Pebbles was one of Twentieth Century-Fox's first Panavision films. This signaled the end of an era as Fox transitioned over from using their CinemaScope lens. For a brief history on this period...visit The American Widescreen Museum. The role of Jake Holman won Steve McQueen his first and only Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Steve McQueen stars in this Oscar (R)-nominated drama about an American gunboat patrolling China's Yangtze River in the 1920s. 2,221 IMDb 7.5 2 h 59 min 1966. X-Ray PG-13. Drama · Adventure · Biting · Downbeat. Available to rent or buy.
