The Sand Pebbles (1966) Steve McQueen Richard Crenna Mako Iwamatsu Richard Attenborough WARPITER

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  • @jefferyballard894
    @jefferyballard894 Рік тому +62

    Steve McQueen was always great, but he should have won an Academy Award for his performance in this film...

    • @larryaniel-f6j
      @larryaniel-f6j 6 місяців тому

      aniel larry in a play CATHOLIC SCHOOL WITH MY SISTER

  • @PowerfulTruth
    @PowerfulTruth 3 місяці тому +19

    Superb movie, highly underrated and worthy of a fresh look in Blu-Ray and restored High-Def. What an excellent cast of actors. Cinematography is sweeping and worthy of superb craftsmanship of its era. Steve McQueen is a Monarch of Cool as Jake Holman.

  • @Majorhavoktv
    @Majorhavoktv Рік тому +45

    So sad when Steve McQueen dies in the end. As a retired First Class Petty Officer I identify with the character of Holman a lot! A Fantastic Movie!!

    • @geno1825
      @geno1825 Рік тому +2

      Don't like the ending but overall really good movie they should of had a happy ending but director was clueless

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 Рік тому +6

      @@geno1825the last thing it needed was a happy ending that would betray the whole point of the movie and the novel it’s based on

    • @timoshenko1971
      @timoshenko1971 Рік тому +3

      A true classic.

    • @superdave8248
      @superdave8248 2 місяці тому +3

      Watching this movie clip I couldn't help but think about the USS Houston. Far from home at the beginning of the second world war and with minimal support. Her fate wouldn't even be completely known until the end of WW2 when 300 or so survivors (out of roughly 1100 crew) were released from captivity from Japanese POW camps.
      But a long story short, she was outgunned and out numbered and fought until she basically ran out of ammunition and was suffering from critical hits. Some accounts claim that in the few months she was active in WW2 she had fired so many rounds from her main guns that their bores had become worn and their accuracy was questionable. But the crew fought on until the ship had nothing left to give. Its Captain received the Medal of Honor, though he died in combat before the ship did it last stand.
      Kind of how things were portrayed in this movie. You fight on until you either complete the mission or your ship and crew has reached their end.

    • @irish89055
      @irish89055 Місяць тому

      And what he says at the end is what I say about what's been happening,particularly in the last 7 years.."what the hell happened?"

  • @MatthewFenton-cv7bp
    @MatthewFenton-cv7bp 3 місяці тому +24

    One of the interesting things about the book upon which the movie was based was that the author, Richard McKenna, was a retired US Navy Chief Machinist's Mate. The book and movie have an engineer as the central character, not the Captain or a deck officer, which is very unusual. And it explores the relationship between the SAN PABLO's crew and the Chinese in a meaningful non-ideological way. McKenna retired from the Navy after Korea and used his GI bill benefits to go to college. One of his professors heard his stories and encouraged him to write, hence the book. He published another collections of short stories "The Left Handed Monkey Wrench". Sadly, he died at 51 of a heart attack. Great book, by the way.

    • @alecfoster4413
      @alecfoster4413 2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for your comment! That book is going on my reading list.

    • @thylacine1154
      @thylacine1154 2 місяці тому +2

      I read the book, I couldn't put it down. It's a great piece of work. The characters are so finely drawn, both the Americans and Chinese. I came away with an authentic view of the time and place.

  • @mgwilliams1000
    @mgwilliams1000 3 роки тому +33

    Steve McQueen's finest performance.

  • @richardmardis2492
    @richardmardis2492 9 місяців тому +13

    When this movie is on, I stop everything and watch it- no matter where in the length of the movie.
    Rarely, do I see it from the very beginning.

  • @pjnealon3476
    @pjnealon3476 3 місяці тому +7

    Love this movie. One of my all-time favorites.

  • @briandubois-gilbert8182
    @briandubois-gilbert8182 2 роки тому +25

    Saw the movie in the late 60s-fascinating, riveting and gave one a dramatic sense of geo-political history and human drama. Everything about the film was first rate: the cast, the director (Robert Wise of the Sound of Music fame), the screenplay, the music score and the location shooting.
    This movie didn’t have your typical Hollywood “happy ending”-but it gave the viewer a realistic narrative of how people get caught up in conflicts and events that’s bigger than the individuals in the story. One of Steve McQueen’s finest performance.

  • @thebookwasbetter3650
    @thebookwasbetter3650 3 роки тому +20

    My dad's favorite movie, only saw it once. He had the soundtrack on vinyl. When CD's came around I got him the sound track on CD. Only saw this movie once but I remember every scene from it.

    • @mcqueenfanman
      @mcqueenfanman 3 роки тому +2

      The book was very good and so was the movie.

    • @thebookwasbetter3650
      @thebookwasbetter3650 3 роки тому +1

      @@mcqueenfanman i might have to a review for my channel!

  • @richardjonscher
    @richardjonscher 2 місяці тому +1

    Ich habe den Film das erstemal als Kind gesehen als er in Deutschland im Fernsehen gelaufen ist. Der Film hat mich beeindruckt und tut es noch heute! Eine tolle schauspielerische Leistung von Steve McQueen und den anderen. Heute bin ich fast 58 Jahre alt.

  • @hunkhoward2605
    @hunkhoward2605 Рік тому +12

    I was stationed in Taiwan where this movie was made at the time it was made. It was filmed in Kaohsiung City . I didn't get to see any filming of the movie because I was stationed at Shu Linko air base which was actually a communications base up in the mountains.

  • @spacemanspiff3052
    @spacemanspiff3052 11 місяців тому +5

    In my book, the most tragically under appreciated motion picture of all time. Great cast, great performances, great music, great direction, great cinematography, and great story.
    There is still much about the cultural misunderstanding between China and the West that still rings true today. In our Western arrogance seeking the Chinese to be more like us, we often confuse the way they are just like us on the human level with their very distinct and cultural beliefs and practices that developed over millennia and deserves our respect.
    For example, we in the West (especially the United States) love Chinese food, but the Chinese food we eat is actually catered to our tastes and is so different from authentic Chinese food, which is rich, complex, and, yes, more challenging a cuisine than we even fathom.
    When it comes to cuisine, we in the West miss all that China has to offer. When it comes to geo-economic politics and relations, we in the West contribute to misunderstanding (as do hawkish militarists and security interests within the CCP) and conflict with China, respecting it while also underestimating it and antagonizing it . . . as they do the same to us. I just hope that we all collectively don’t end up saying “What happened? What the hell happened?” because China and the West both couldn’t come to grips with mutual respect, appreciation, and beneficial conflict avoidance.

    • @dpeasehead
      @dpeasehead 3 місяці тому +1

      @spacemanspiff3052: Chinese, not just ideologues in the CCP remember the century and more of turmoil set in motion first by the intervention of the west and later by Imperial Japan. Most people in the west especially in the US have no historical memory or context and it shows not just in the way they approach China but in the Middle East, in Africa and everywhere else. It will never be 1950 again and I don't think that a lot of people in the US have accepted that fact.

  • @brianjensen7985
    @brianjensen7985 6 місяців тому +5

    Excellent movie and book as well.

  • @ronburati257
    @ronburati257 2 роки тому +6

    What. A. Film.
    What. An. Actor.

  • @acebrandon3522
    @acebrandon3522 3 місяці тому +2

    Such a great eye-popping movie!!!! If you, read the US Navy's action reports on the Boxer rebellion in the 20's you'll find that this movie is not that far off from the navy's accounts.

  • @bluerock4456
    @bluerock4456 3 місяці тому +3

    My great-uncle died in the events of the Boxer Rebellion, while serving in the US Navy. His brother, until the end of his days, every July 4th hoisted the flag that draped his brother's remains as he was committed to the deep. (aka buried at sea).

  • @garytuner1938
    @garytuner1938 2 місяці тому +1

    Absolutely he deserved Oscar for this film

    • @garytuner1938
      @garytuner1938 2 місяці тому

      You have to remember this film was closest to Steve’s love of machinery , for all his fans I have book on Steve’s last year called the last mile totally moving ,also Steve mc queen laser motorcycle helmet from Le Mans film , which almost bankrupt him , a Troy Lee helmet ,also copy of his Barbour jacket from his six day trials ,

  • @8enable
    @8enable 2 місяці тому +2

    Absolutely a brilliant movie!

  • @robertbenson9797
    @robertbenson9797 3 місяці тому +1

    Excellent movie with an outstanding cast! Steve McQueen’s best roll!
    The depiction of the US weapons at the time is spot on. The way McQueen manipulated the sights on the 1903 Springfield rifle and the BAR were exactly as it was done.
    Too bad McQueen did not win an Oscar for this movie. Lots of great acting by the entire cast. Candace Bergman must have been 12 when the movie was made!

  • @gterakami4809
    @gterakami4809 Місяць тому

    I saw this movie in 1966 with my dad who is a WWII veteran. This had an all star cast with Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna and Mako and others. I totally enjoyed this movie so much I bought the soundtrack on an LP. One of the truly great war pictures of all time.

  • @robertphair4285
    @robertphair4285 3 місяці тому +2

    Great movie. He and Richard Crenna magnificent

  • @ernesttenesmus6757
    @ernesttenesmus6757 10 місяців тому +7

    Powerful film. Not a date movie.

  • @chrisbyars4422
    @chrisbyars4422 3 роки тому +9

    A great movie indeed

  • @bobbirdwell5452
    @bobbirdwell5452 3 місяці тому +1

    This movie actually inspired me to join the Navy. I used to watch it every time it came on TV during the 70s yeah, that’s how you watch movies back then you either wait till they came on TV or saw them in the theater.

  • @caintindal1671
    @caintindal1671 2 місяці тому

    I remember watching this as a kid and loved it. These days children would not be allowed to watch a movie like this that is the problem with the generation of today.

  • @WaferBrik
    @WaferBrik 2 місяці тому +3

    I rarely get emotional watching movies and I've watched a heap, but Steve McQueen's demise in this really upset me. He was so believable. He WAS Holman. I'm sure this was his best ever performance, though he was great in Papillon too.

    • @alecfoster4413
      @alecfoster4413 2 місяці тому

      The movie was emotionally draining, not unlike The Deer Hunter in that respect. But TSP left you shaken and numb in a more profound, epic sense.

  • @brucesnyder690
    @brucesnyder690 Рік тому +5

    One if the best movies ever.

    • @nighthiker8872
      @nighthiker8872 Рік тому +2

      I was 9 years old, watching at the Drive-in. Tells how the world is really run.

  • @jonkomatsu8192
    @jonkomatsu8192 Місяць тому

    That ending--wow.
    Still affects and chokes me up. Wow. 😞

  • @kynsaisyiem877
    @kynsaisyiem877 3 роки тому +10

    Sand pebbles is one of the best movie I want to watch it again please find full movie in English not in trailer

  • @67icebowl
    @67icebowl 2 місяці тому

    A fantastic movie I've watched multiple times. I also read the book.

  • @mikefreeman3772
    @mikefreeman3772 2 роки тому +6

    I watch this movie knowing it's only a movie but I also think more often about the politics these days... and those that die or are killed b/c of political decisions and the freedom I have. 2022 I am 62 years old. My Uncle Howard, my mothers brother, Killed in Action, Korea, my Grandmothers' son, the uncle I never knew: USMC, KIA, Korea. Thank-you Uncle Howard, killed in action at 19 years old (USMC, KIA. Purple Heart. Grave on Korea).

    • @poilochien
      @poilochien 5 місяців тому

      killed for nothing ...

    • @mh53j
      @mh53j 2 місяці тому

      ​@@poilochienI'm pretty sure South Korea today isn't "nothing." Unlike the ungrateful, cynical schmucks that infest this country, people in nations that the US military freed from tyrannical, brutal invaders, (France, Philippines, Korea for example) still appreciate and recognize the sacrifices made by American troops.
      Anyone ever stop to think what South Vietnam would have become if the US would have prosecuted the war like it wanted to win? It could have been prosperous like South Korea.
      But I'm sure you don't see any difference between North and South Korea. Which Korea do you think any Korean, North or South, would prefer to live in?

  • @Nonyourbiz123
    @Nonyourbiz123 2 місяці тому +3

    McQueen should have gotten the best actor Oscar.

  • @mdmarko
    @mdmarko 3 місяці тому +2

    Just finished a great book about the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol.

  • @richardorton3881
    @richardorton3881 11 місяців тому +2

    This film was a big project, took Wise and Fox more than a year to prepare before they began shooting. So Fox assigned Wise another film to direct while this one was in planning. That interim film was "The Sound of Music", about the biggest hit Fox ever had.

  • @thomashartmann283
    @thomashartmann283 2 місяці тому

    Super Film 😊❤

  • @105381000
    @105381000 2 роки тому +5

    I read McKenna's book of the same title. He is a pretty gritty but realistic writer. His anthology is in a book titled Left-handed Monkey wrench. I recommend his books.

    • @earljohnson50
      @earljohnson50 3 місяці тому +2

      He was ex-Navy and a veteran of the Yangtze Patrol in the 1930’s about 10 years after the date of the book. For the most part, the Yangtze Patrol was a pretty uneventful tour since its inception in the 1850’s. American naval presence in the region goes back to the days of John Adams. The middle to end of the 1920’s and the latter part of the 1930’s going into December of 1941, were the most active and turbulent years for the Yangtze Patrol.

  • @philipavello3925
    @philipavello3925 Рік тому +1

    Steve's only Oscar nomination. Great performance that shows he was more than first action hero. Lost Oscar to Paul Scofield who gave another great performance. Steve should have won for Papillion.

  • @alecfoster4413
    @alecfoster4413 2 місяці тому

    McQueen is rightfully lauded in this comment stream. His performance in TSP even exceeds my other favorite McQueen role in The Great Escape. But let's not forget the extraordinary characterizations brought to life by Richard Attenborough and Richard Crenna. Crenna was not a simple cut-out antagonist to McQueen, but a very complex personality. At the end of the movie I had as much sympathy with Collins as I had with Holman.

  • @irish89055
    @irish89055 Місяць тому +1

    We kept the patrols going until 1949, with a gap from 1938-45

  • @stephenmcgraw9466
    @stephenmcgraw9466 2 місяці тому +1

    Excellent story. From an era when they actually told stories and not depend so heavily on special effects.

  • @joeavent5554
    @joeavent5554 3 місяці тому +1

    Some say that the ending of the movie was not to their liking:
    The author of the book was pointing out that life is not fair for officers nor enlisted. The CO died along with Jake. Serving is about sacrifice. Remember the homeless veterans on American streets...

    • @TWS-pd5dc
      @TWS-pd5dc 2 місяці тому

      Interesting fact: In the book Lt. Collins is wounded, not killed. Holeman takes charge and Bronson and Crosley help Collins limp away.

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 2 місяці тому +1

    Jack warden had been a sailor
    In navy based in China 1938
    He would have had first
    Class knowledge of conditions
    In that era
    Obviously his name wasn't big enough for box office draw
    Surprised they never gave him
    A secondary role!

  • @ChrisSmith-lo2kp
    @ChrisSmith-lo2kp 5 місяців тому +3

    Stillwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara Tuchman

  • @jacksmith7082
    @jacksmith7082 2 роки тому +4

    When they raised the flag going in.

  • @joangratzer2101
    @joangratzer2101 2 роки тому +3

    GREAT FILM; MCQUEENS BEST.. HE WAS A FINE MAN; DONATED MONEY TO A LOCAL ORPHANAGE IN TAIWAN EVERY YEAR WITH THE STIPULATION THAT IT BE ANONYMOUS. ALSO GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR; GAVE 300 BATMAN POSTERS TO HIS FRIENDS IN THE GREEN BERETS, THEY WENT AROUND THE JUNGLES OF VIETNAM NAILING THEM TO TREES. MCQUEEN SAID "IT WILL SCARE THE HELL OUT OF THEM, THEY WILL THINK IT'S SOME KIND OF SECRET AMERICAN WEAPON!"

  • @NESig
    @NESig 2 місяці тому +1

    Such a great film. Fantastic film. Great cast and a great story. But it is such a downer of a movie. :( I LOVE this movie but it makes me sad.

  • @garethtomkins5797
    @garethtomkins5797 2 роки тому +3

    Great movie with awesome score.👍

  • @terryfowler6090
    @terryfowler6090 5 місяців тому +2

    My favorite scene is the battle of the barricade.

  • @dtrapbai9030
    @dtrapbai9030 2 роки тому +1

    he looked damn good sport'n that BAR...how a man ou'ta look.

    • @petervanderbeek9518
      @petervanderbeek9518 Рік тому

      yes he did

    • @johnnyangel9163
      @johnnyangel9163 Рік тому +2

      Holman set up your BAR up front.

    • @dpeasehead
      @dpeasehead 3 місяці тому +1

      @dtrapbai9030: Bonnie, the one you know of from Bonnie and Clyde, was 4'11" and she handled a sawed off BAR.

  • @garyreid9842
    @garyreid9842 3 роки тому +4

    Would love to get my hands on a copy of the book

    • @covertops19Z
      @covertops19Z 3 роки тому +4

      I'm proud to have a first edition copy in my vast military historical library. This movie was instrumental in my decision to join the Navy in 1969 at age 17.. Later, I switched to the Army side and retired from title 10 Army active duty. I watch this movie often. It's absolutely fabulous 💯👍

    • @Soothsayer-rs5nb
      @Soothsayer-rs5nb 2 роки тому +1

      @@covertops19Z edition not addition

    • @covertops19Z
      @covertops19Z 2 роки тому +1

      @@Soothsayer-rs5nb Duely noted and corrected, thank you.. I may have been drinkin' when I made that comment..🤔😒

    • @johnnyangel9163
      @johnnyangel9163 Рік тому

      Amazon has it.

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 Рік тому

      Just finished it DAMN good book

  • @clevlandblock
    @clevlandblock 2 місяці тому +1

    Browning Automatic Rifle

  • @rollfpeters5159
    @rollfpeters5159 2 місяці тому

    Danke --in deutsch heisst der film --kanonenboot --oder so--harter film--tue rollf

  • @bobsylvester88
    @bobsylvester88 2 місяці тому

    No one will react to this movie. I think they’re afraid to.

  • @RamonDesiderioMartin
    @RamonDesiderioMartin 7 місяців тому +1

    Ya me dirás si te interesa lo que te parezca pero hazlo con la ley orgánica de protección de datos de carácter personal gracias GRACIASCC

    •  7 місяців тому

      Ésto es promoción si no te gusta abraza un arbol 🐷

    • @RamonDesiderioMartin
      @RamonDesiderioMartin 7 місяців тому

      @ suéltalo te va dar Calambre me parece indeseable que corrijas lo que veo por que ME DA LA GANA VALE POLLO

  • @larryaniel-f6j
    @larryaniel-f6j 6 місяців тому +1

    ORDERED USN SEABEE PATCH ON MY RUSIAN AMERICAN CAP

  • @joebombero1
    @joebombero1 2 роки тому

    If you like this story you might enjoy my short story, "The Song Sand" about a North Korean ship patrolling the Arkansas River. The story is available on Amazon's Kindle Vella by me - Joe B.

    • @blharrison4118
      @blharrison4118 Рік тому +1

      I found your story, and will give it a read. I'm a guy from Arkansas with a lot of connections to Korea...South Korea. Needless to say, I'm more than intrigued.
      But I'll say one thing. If I ever see a North Korean vessel on the waters where my grandfather taught me how to fish, it won't be afloat long. I have dynamite for blowing stumps. That's not all I can use it fore. haha

    • @joebombero1
      @joebombero1 Рік тому

      @@blharrison4118 thanks! I hope you enjoy it :)

  • @MrJuvefrank
    @MrJuvefrank 2 роки тому +1

    Somebody should make a movie about the C.S.S. (Confederate States Ship) Alabama, and Admiral Raphael Semmes, the person who was in command of this ship before Black folks say we cannot make a movie about a ship and an officer that prestigious. Admiral Semmes hated killing, therefore, his crew took far more prisoners than he killed Union sailors. Right or wrong, I wouldn't turn back the clock to the Civil War era; the Union won, and I don't regret it in any way.

    • @dpeasehead
      @dpeasehead 3 місяці тому

      @MrJuvefrank: Black folk aren't the problem. White people are the ones can't seem to teach history or to make movies about that time period which don't come across as sugarcoating or justifying race based chattel slavery. Yet, the same white people can make WWII films all day which don't glamorize the nazis or the German state of that time, or disappear or downplay the holocaust and other atrocities they committed.

  • @sjohnson1216
    @sjohnson1216 11 місяців тому

    Thanks. Now I don't have to watch the whole V I O L E N T thing.

    •  11 місяців тому +2

      It's called cinema and it's not made for mules, take care

    • @normanbateman
      @normanbateman 10 місяців тому +2

      Pop open one of your Bud Lights and watch The Masked Singer Beta Boy. Some of us don't scream like a girl when we get a paper cut.

    • @mh53j
      @mh53j 2 місяці тому

      Yeah, you won't find this on the woke Disney channel, cupcake.

  • @MrGb1965
    @MrGb1965 7 місяців тому

    Just watched. Enjoyed but thought the ending fell short.

  • @tedharbach2403
    @tedharbach2403 Рік тому

    Comments close all around

  • @RamonDesiderioMartin
    @RamonDesiderioMartin 7 місяців тому

    Steve McQueen en el mar de la china, colonial San Pablo carcasa para vigilancia fronteriza y situación tensa en territorio inhóspito gracias

  • @glenknapke6771
    @glenknapke6771 Рік тому

    Gave me the answer Larry Chester Thomas Aniel

  • @poilochien
    @poilochien 5 місяців тому +1

    les acteurs chinois jouent de manière caricatural, c'est dommage ... sinon, bon film !
    la bataille sur le fleuve est tiré d'un événement qui s'est déroulé fin août 1926 sur le yang zi, tout au bout des trois gorges : " l'incident de wanxian " .

  • @larryaniel-f6j
    @larryaniel-f6j 6 місяців тому

    aniel larry

  • @michaelrichardson6051
    @michaelrichardson6051 5 місяців тому

    What the hell happened?

  • @hunkhoward2605
    @hunkhoward2605 Рік тому

    Lol

  • @geno1825
    @geno1825 Рік тому +2

    Overall good movie but the ending sucks 😞 & better ending would of made it lot better

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 Рік тому +2

      No it wouldn’t I’m afraid it would betray the whole message of the whole movie and the book it’s based on

    • @sakura7431
      @sakura7431 11 місяців тому

      The ending is the best part

    • @michaelrichardson6051
      @michaelrichardson6051 5 місяців тому +1

      That is exactly how the book ended.

  • @glenknapke6771
    @glenknapke6771 Рік тому

    Energy drinks non menthol cigarettes inexpensive cigars

  • @SamLukie
    @SamLukie 3 місяці тому

    Bad ending!

  • @kevinfarrell523
    @kevinfarrell523 8 місяців тому

    A disappointing Robert Wise film.

  • @davecordes6121
    @davecordes6121 3 місяці тому

    Sorry, Steve McQueen is one of the jerkiest actors. . .

    • @mh53j
      @mh53j 2 місяці тому

      Didn't get too many people agree with there, Mr Movie Critic.