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The Sand Pebbles
Snafu conduct blockbuster with Vietnam parallels in regard to those who care to pick them up; pretty thinly stretched pleasure regardless of the tons of dicey.
The Sand Pebbles
Weighed down with awards after the happy result of West Side Copy and The Sound of Music, maestro Well-considered produced the third of his great 'roadshow' movies - these were extreme-gravy, larger-than-life releases shown in huge theatres with an intermission. It's an appropriately epic concern, but with thoughtful direction the blear weighs the mortal cost of unthinking nationalism. A rugged, maverick machinist Jake Holman (McQueen), is newly stationed on US gunboat the San Pablo (Chinese mispronunciation provides the obscure's title). The steamer's job is to keep going harmony on the Yangtze River but relations between the US and the Chinese - including the coolies who work on the ship - are strained. Eventually resentment toward the Americans becomes too ...
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