Indeed. Also, it’s interesting that its director(Robert Wise) made “The Sound of Music”(another classic but very different type of picture) immediately prior to it.
Here’s a website dedicated to “The Sand Pebbles”:
http://www.thesandpebbles.com/
This is Mad magazine’s funny take on it, called “The Sam Pebbles”:
http://www.thesandpebbles.com/mad_magazine/mad_sandpebbles.htm
Thanks for those sites. I read somewhere that Mr. Wise was so proud of the film he held annual screenings to which the cast and crew were invited. Truly a classic.