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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 12, 2009
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: 20Th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen & Richard Crenna | |
Performer: | Simon Oakland, Charles Robinson, Marayat Andriane, Larry Gates, Barney Phillips & Mako | |
Directed by | Robert Wise | |
Edited by | William Reynolds | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Anderson | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Robert Wise | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph MacDonald |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
The drama wavers between being compelling and reaching too far for greater historical significance, that it loses its bearings.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A fine old-school picture...elevated further by its progressive themes. [Blu-Ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Rating: 76/100 --
Classic war tale suffers from unwieldly running time.
Apollo Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
Overlong, moderately entertaining "epic"
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 5/5 --
Underrated Robert Wise classic starring McQueen in his finest acting role.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: C+ --
Steve McQueen gives a dominant performance in Robert Wise's ambitious but flawed period drama, which offers interesting parallels to the US involvment in Vietnam.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
Steve McQueen is great, and Candace Bergen is breathtakingly beautiful.
KPBS.org
Product Description:
One of the most exciting and heart-wrenching epics ever made, THE SAND PEBBLES is a masterpiece of storytelling, with exceptional performances by a stellar cast. The complex tale begins simply enough in 1926 China, where a group of American soldiers are patrolling the Yangtze River on a gunboat called the San Pablo. The crew members, who call themselves Sand Pebbles, includes Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a dispassionate but capable navy machinist, and his only friend, Frenchy (Richard Attenborough), a sailor in love with an English-educated Chinese girl, Maily (Marayat Andriane), who has been sold into prostitution. Strong feelings of nationalism have been sweeping through China, however, and when Chiang Kai-shek moves against the feudal warlords, the United States decides to treat the upheaval as a civil war, and the San Pablo is ordered to confine its function to protection of American civilians in the area. Included among them are Mr. Jameson (Larry Gates), a missionary, and Shirley Eckert (Candice Bergen), a schoolteacher with whom Jake falls in love. Soon Jake finds himself in the middle of an international military crisis when his native assistant, Po-han (Mako), is brutally tortured in an attempt to draw the San Pablo's fire, and the boat's inexperienced and prideful captain (Richard Crenna) wants to give his humiliated ship and disgraced crew a chance for glory. THE SAND PEBBLES--with its expert cinematography, moving score, and riveting locations--is a memorable viewing experience brought to life by the multitalented director Robert Wise.
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