[MOVIE] Sand Pebbles

[mTk]

Was switching channels last night and stumbled onto this. It has been a loong time since I'd seen it so got some popcorn and a brew and tuned in (its long). Great cast with Steve McQueen and Candy (as she was known then) Bergen, among others. Really enjoyed it, although I'd forgotten that this is a hard movie to watch. Some disturbing and emotional scenes. Not a happy movie by any definition. Very much worth your time though if it got by you, or if its been a while. Being a period picture it still holds up extremely well IMHO.

Here's the trailer. Try to ignore the melodramatic hyperbole if you can. Really, it is not the Sound of Music.

 

[Badger73]

Good find. I recall thinking highly of it for the reasons you state. I should revisit this. Thanks for mentioning.

 

[Badger73]

My cable television provider (Spectrum) still had this "On Demand" until the end of January. Watched it with my wife last week. It is a good script extremely well acted. I had forgotten just how long this movie is ( 3 hours ) and that it is much more a drama than an action film. It was interesting for me to note some of the anti-war ambivalence of the Vietnam War time period when the film was made creep into the story line a bit. The film also paints a pretty realistic back story to how horrible things were in China during the 1920's and 1930's. A Chinese friend once told me that as bad subsequent Communist rule may seem, it was the only improvement available to replace something far times worse.