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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 [ edit ] USS Villalobos was the model for the fictional gunboat USS San Pablo portrayed in Richard McKenna 's novel The Sand Pebbles , and in 1965 the producers of the 1966 film version of the novel spent US$250,000 on building a prop gunboat to depict the ship.
The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, and was published in January 1963 by Harper & Row.
The fictional USS San Pablo, the Yangtze Patrol gunboat in Richard McKenna's well-known 1962 novel The Sand Pebbles, set in 1926, was modelled on the USS Villalobos, a 31-year-old vessel originally captured from Spain during the Spanish–American War in 1898. In many respects, it resembled design features of the later 1928 gunboats.
The Sand Pebbles, 1962 novel about an American gunboat and its crew on the Yangtze River in the 1920s The Sand Pebbles (film) , a 1966 film of the book starring Steve McQueen Sand Pebbles (rock band) , an Australian psychedelic rock band (mainly 2001–2012)
McKenna himself served aboard a river gunboat on the Yangtze Patrol, but about ten years after the events in his novel and of more modern construction (San Pablo was an ancient gunboat seized from the Spanish in 1898). The Sand Pebbles won the $10,000 1963 Harper Prize Novel and was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. [2]
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USS San Pablo, a fictional United States Navy gunboat that is the setting for the 1962 novel The Sand Pebbles (novel) and the 1966 movie The Sand Pebbles Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title USS San Pablo .