ParadiseRoad
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...The Sand Pebbles...1966...
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Double-O-Dave
US Veteran
One of my favorite movies of all time - I never tire of re-watching it. I think my favorite lines in the film are:
Capt. Collins: "Holman, I'll have you shot as a mutineer!"
Jake Holman: "Well shoot something!"
Regards,
Dave
Capt. Collins: "Holman, I'll have you shot as a mutineer!"
Jake Holman: "Well shoot something!"
Regards,
Dave
OLDNAVYMCPO
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
I love that movie, was a whitehat when it came out. Readily identified with the character played by McQueen. I've probably only seen the movie a dozen times since.
cmort666
Member
Parts of the movie were filmed in the Korean Folk Village near Seoul. I went there in '81.
alde
Member
A great movie made in a time before computer generated sets and impossible action sequences.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
I dreamed of going to the Orient after seeing it.
And for my sins, Uncle Sam sent me.
I dreamed of going to the Orient after seeing it.
And for my sins, Uncle Sam sent me.
Yeah, I like that movie, too. Maybe I'll watch it again.
Here is an interesting, contemporary review from the NYT. Movie Review - The Sand Pebbles - Screen: 'The Sand Pebbles' Begins Its Run at Rivoli
icture Offers Lesson on Foreign Ventures - NYTimes.com
In reading up a bit on the internet, I learned that the Eurasian actress, Marayat Andriane, who plays "Maily," a Chinese prostitute and love interest of one of the characters, was quite a live wire in her own right:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Arsan
Here is an interesting, contemporary review from the NYT. Movie Review - The Sand Pebbles - Screen: 'The Sand Pebbles' Begins Its Run at Rivoli
icture Offers Lesson on Foreign Ventures - NYTimes.comIn reading up a bit on the internet, I learned that the Eurasian actress, Marayat Andriane, who plays "Maily," a Chinese prostitute and love interest of one of the characters, was quite a live wire in her own right:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Arsan
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Capt. Collins (Richard Crenna) Flag Day Speech from the 1966 movie The Sand Pebbles:
"Today we begin cruising to show the flag on Tungting Lake and the Hunan Rivers.
I want all honors rendered smartly.
At home in America, when today reaches them it will be Flag Day. For us who
wear the uniform every day is Flag Day.
It is said that there will be no more wars. We must pretend to believe that.
But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock, and buy time with
our lives. It is we who keep the Faith...
We serve the Flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death.
It is for that purpose that the people of America maintain us. And anyone of
us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage,
is a thief of the food he eats, and a trespasser in the bunk in which he lies
down to sleep."
"Today we begin cruising to show the flag on Tungting Lake and the Hunan Rivers.
I want all honors rendered smartly.
At home in America, when today reaches them it will be Flag Day. For us who
wear the uniform every day is Flag Day.
It is said that there will be no more wars. We must pretend to believe that.
But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock, and buy time with
our lives. It is we who keep the Faith...
We serve the Flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death.
It is for that purpose that the people of America maintain us. And anyone of
us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage,
is a thief of the food he eats, and a trespasser in the bunk in which he lies
down to sleep."
DWalt
Member
I had an uncle (my father's oldest brother) who was in the Navy and spent most of the 1930s in China, until the Japanese invasion. He was a hard-hat diver. I never knew much about him, but he allegedly married a Chinese woman who, I have been told, died shortly after they got married. An interesting character - he joined the Navy during WWI at age 15 - he lied about his age, and stayed in all through WWII, during which he spent all of his time stateside, doing something in D.C. He later became a Navy civilian employee after his retirement. I saw him once, but briefly, in 1961. Every time I see the Sand Pebbles, I think about him and would have liked to have heard his stories.
BigBill
Absent Comrade
This movie was on cable not too long ago. Great movie.
Notice the button front blues in the McQueen and Bergen photo. My father was a Machinist Mate 1st class in WW2 Pacific on Destroyer.
I have the movie on DVD.
Part I didn't like is when the Chief
Gets shot boarding the blockade.
Part I didn't like is when the Chief
Gets shot boarding the blockade.
Old TexMex
Member
One of my absolute most favorite movies." I was home. What happened? What the hell happened?"
I had a neighbor growing up, who was,(my father said)"An old China hand"....Always mystified by that term, had to go see what it was all about. The party was over, I rekon.
I had a neighbor growing up, who was,(my father said)"An old China hand"....Always mystified by that term, had to go see what it was all about. The party was over, I rekon.
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SmokeStack Lightning
Member
Mako (The Japanese born, American Actor) who protrayed "Po-Han" was nominated for the "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar for his work in that film.
He had quite a career playing Asian characters for the motion picture and TV industries before and after that film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Iwamatsu
He had quite a career playing Asian characters for the motion picture and TV industries before and after that film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Iwamatsu
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Chromedhearts
US Veteran
McQueen sure knew how to run a BAR.
Probably learned to run one in the Corp.
Probably learned to run one in the Corp.
TAROMAN
US Veteran
One of my all time favorites, too.
Had to laugh, LT Collins' (Richard Crenna's) 1911 is a....STAR!
Look closely at the cabin scene.
Another favirite: The Wind and The Lion.
Capt. Jerome, USMC: Captain Jerome, United States Marine Corps, and you are my prisoner, sir.
The Emir of Tangier: You are a very dangerous man, Captain, and your President Roosevelt is mad.
Capt. Jerome, USMC (with a huge smile): Yes, sir!
Had to laugh, LT Collins' (Richard Crenna's) 1911 is a....STAR!
Look closely at the cabin scene.
Another favirite: The Wind and The Lion.
Capt. Jerome, USMC: Captain Jerome, United States Marine Corps, and you are my prisoner, sir.
The Emir of Tangier: You are a very dangerous man, Captain, and your President Roosevelt is mad.
Capt. Jerome, USMC (with a huge smile): Yes, sir!
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Steve sure did some great BAR work! And '03 Springfield too!
