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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 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 .
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.
War Hunt; 1963: Tom Jones; Lilies of the Field; All the Way Home; Hud; This Sporting Life; Lord of the Flies; The L-Shaped Room; The Great Escape; How the West Was Won; The Cardinal; 1964: Becket; My Fair Lady; Girl with Green Eyes; The World of Henry Orient; Zorba the Greek; Topkapi; The Chalk Garden; The Finest Hours; Four Days in November ...
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.
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.
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]
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: