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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.
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.
Sand Pebbles may refer to: The Sand Pebbles, 1962 novel about an American gunboat and its crew on the Yangtze River in the 1920s; The Sand Pebbles, a 1966 film of the book starring Steve McQueen; Sand Pebbles (rock band), an Australian psychedelic rock band (mainly 2001–2012)
The Sandpebbles were an American R&B vocal group composed of Calvin White, Andrea Bolden, and Lonzine Wright. [1] They recorded for Calla Records, and had one major pop hit in the U.S., "Love Power", which hit #14 on the Billboard Black Singles chart in 1967 and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year. [2]
The Sand Pebbles: Captain Collins 1967 Wait Until Dark: Mike Talman 1968 Star! Richard Aldrich: 1969 Midas Run: Mike Warden Marooned: Jim Pruett 1971 Doctors' Wives: Dr. Peter Brennan The Deserter: Major Wade Brown Red Sky at Morning: Frank Arnold Catlow: Marshal Ben Cowan 1972 Un flic: Simon 1973 The Man Called Noon: Noon Jonathan Livingston ...
The Sound of Music was an interim film for Wise, produced to mollify the studio while he developed the difficult film The Sand Pebbles (1966), starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, and Candice Bergen. The Sand Pebbles, Wise's critically acclaimed film epic, was a parable of the Vietnam War, with an antiwar director and message.
Sand Pebbles is a psychedelic rock band from Melbourne, Australia. History. Formed on Bastille Day, 2001 [citation needed] on the set of Neighbours by three of the ...