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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 production was filmed on location in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The Sand War (Arabic: حَرْبُ الرِّمَال, romanized: Ḥarb ar-Rimāl) was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20, 1964.
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 .
Foreman also said he intended to make his directorial debut with the movie. [8] In August 1961, Foreman said the project would be titled The Victors as he felt the theme of the book was that in war the winners are also the losers. [9] In February 1962, Foreman arrived in Los Angeles to cast the movie. [10]
The Sand Pebbles won the $10,000 1963 Harper Prize Novel and was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. [2] Shortly after the movie deal was announced, McKenna appeared on the television quiz program To Tell the Truth, receiving one vote from the celebrity panel.
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers.The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction.
It includes 1963 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for war films released in the year 1963 . It does not include unreleased films.
October 7, 1963: U.S. joins ban of atmospheric nuclear testing October 9, 1963: More than 2,000 in Italy killed by overflow of the Vajont Dam October 26, 1963: Sub-launched nuclear missiles can now strike target "anywhere on Earth" October 31, 1963: 74 killed in Coliseum explosion in Indianapolis. The following events occurred in October 1963: