[rktman]

One of the best movies of all time.

[rktman]

Forgot how haunting the theme was.

[DCBryan1]

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

[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 .

[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.

[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.

[circlecity]

I just watched the McQueen movie “Nevada Smith” on Netflicks a couple of nights ago and it’s quite a contrast. Not a good movie and not good acting by McQueen. Karl Mauldin really shows him up in the acting department.

[edzo4]

Such a great movie puts today’s stuff to shame. Movies today don’t spend enough time on character development just cram it full of special effects to keep the low info short attention span group engaged

[ought-six]

That was a very good movie.