The Sand Pebbles (1966)

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Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Steve McQueen plays Jake Holman, an engineer on the gunboat USS San Pablo. The year is 1927 and the ship is stationed in China. The geopolitical landscape of the country is nearly unrecognizable compared to today. It’s worth considering what this movie is trying to say about nationalism, colonialism, and racism. All the hot-button “isms”! As you can guess, there are parts of this film that definitely did not age well. Come experience McQueen in yet another rebellious role. Thank you to Mark for commissioning this podcast! You can get your very own custom commissioned podcast by visiting https://support.baldmove.com/. Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige film today. We're talking about the 1966 American epic war film the sand pebbles
0:09.0	is directed by Robert Wise who directed the musical's West Side story and the sound of music.
0:15.0	Interestingly enough, the production on this film is
0:17.8	legendarily difficult. It's a real apocalypse now type situation.
0:21.0	And the only reason the sound the music got made is because
0:24.8	there was so many delays in the filmmaking. The producers of the film wanted to
0:28.6	recoup their costs and they kind of strong-armed Wies into it later of course became one the most acclaimed
0:34.5	musical of his all time he also directed the Adronimus strain and Star Trek
0:38.7	the motion picture what an amazing run of grounded work in sci-fi fantasy.
0:46.0	Also, Jim, native Hoosier, rather,
0:50.0	from Winchester, Indiana.
0:53.0	Screenplay by Robert Anderson based on the novel The Sand Pebbles,
0:57.0	written in 1962 by Robert McKenna,
1:00.0	a US sailor about his experiences in the US's brown water navy apparently
1:06.6	And it stars the great Steve McQueen we recently saw him in the great escape
1:12.4	He's also stars in Magnificent Seven and Bullitt among others
1:16.3	Richard Attenborough. We also saw him with Steve McQueen in the Great Escape and he was
1:27.0	Hammond, Mr Hammond in Jurassic Park, probably most famous for
1:32.0	peeps on our generation, stars Richard Crenna as the captain. He was the colonel in the first three Rambo movies.
1:35.2	He'll probably recognize him.
1:36.8	Yes.
1:37.8	Yeah, that's, yeah, it's one of the things, I know that face.
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