Theme from "The Sand Pebbles"

youtube ^ | 11/2/16

[pabianice]

Best movie of 1966. Enjoy.

[rktman]

One of the best movies of all time.

[Lewis Stone]

Beat me to it! McQueen’s best as well as the best performance every by Richard crenna.

[rktman]

Forgot how haunting the theme was.

[rktman]

You didn’t like Crenna in “Our Miss Brooks”? LOL!

[DCBryan1]

Loved the guns of the movie. Lewis Gun, M1903s, M1918 BAR, 1911s, etc. ...and of course "Main Steam Stop Walve"

[DIRTYSECRET]

Great flick. Young Murphy Brown gal when she was beautiful. A poor girls Julie Christie. McQueen knew his ‘engine loom stuff’ to the point where no one liked him. Burn it-WASH IT! He chopped the barricade, became the boxing manager of Mako, escorted the Captain to rescue the naive Minister.

[marron]

One of my favorite movies ever. I’ve watched it any number of times.

[BlueLancer]

My absolutely number one favorite movie ...

[sparklite2]

I let this play while I was out of the room,
and a few iterations later, you-tube
played the theme from "In Harm's Way,"
which sounded much better to me than
the theme from Sand Pebbles. I also liked
"In Harm's Way" much better as a movie.

[Kid Shelleen]

Very powerful scene when Po-Han is killed. It really shows the evil of communism .

[Thank You Rush]

“”Forgot how haunting the theme was.””

Have watched the VCR tape several times and I’ve always been so caught up in the movie that I wouldn’t even swear that it had music... I agree - the greatest movie ever and Steve McQueen was one of my very favorites...The book written by his first wife Neile Adams is excellent. I’ve gotten rid of books every so often but that is one that will never be given away.

[Revelation 911]

our teacher had us watch this in 5th grade....Isnt there a scene where a repairman gets squished in a crankshaft as it rotates?

The movie and McQueen was lost on us young brats.

[Steely Tom]

"What the hell happened?!"

"Forget it Jake, it's China."

Steve McQueen's character in The Sand Pebbles is named Jake too.

[Jaxter]

Great movie. The book is very good too. Written by Richard McKenna. He was actually a China sailor and was there a few years after the period in the movie.

[Dick Bachert]

AMEN! Steve McQueen IS Jake Holman! GREAT FILM!!

[Dick Bachert]

AMEN! Steve McQueen IS Jake Holman! GREAT FILM!!

[PUGACHEV]

It’s a very interesting book too, written by an ex-China sailor. One of the great metaphors lost in the movie is why the engine bearings failed. From the beginning Holman noticed a curious bump in the crankshaft when turning, but no matter how much he checked, everything seemed in order. Later, he discovered the the ship was warped from having been run aground and the main bearings were slightly out of alignment. Like the US’s policy toward China, no matter how well the engine was maintained, it’s foundation was flawed.

[rktman]

Changing shaft bearing is no fun either. ;-)

[drjimmy]

A great action movie with great acting, but 1966 had some other gems as well.

For similar historical action there was Khartoum.

For drama there was the groundbreaking Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

For comedy there was The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming.

For westerns there was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

For artsy-fartsy there was Blow-Up.

For schlock there was The Wild Angels.

For science fiction there was Fantastic Voyage (with Raquel Welch providing the eye candy).

For documentary there was The Endless Summer.

For romance there was The Glass Bottom Boat.

And for horror you can pick from Manos: The Hands of Fate, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Dracula: Prince of Darkness (a Hammer classic), or the one that gave me nightmares for a long time after I saw it as a nine-year-old kid, The Black Cat.