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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 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 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)
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.
Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel The Sand Pebbles, which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
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.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Asiatic Fleet was based from China, and the image of the "China Sailor" developed, as many U.S. Navy members remained at postings in China for 10–12 years, then retired and continued to live there. The classic film The Sand Pebbles is a dramatization on the life of the China Sailors.