The Sand pebbles
How can you not like this movie? Steve McQueen and a Browning BAR, An incredibly young Candice Bergen, showing off that fine backside of hers in those losse cotton drawers. Gavin “love boat” mcCleod. Richard Attenborough and Richard Crenna. This movie was made before Vietnam became a “quagmire”.
Oh, and Larry Gates as a convincing (perhaps too convincing) leftist scumbag- who gets shot by the folks he’s so much in love with. Pity we can’t arrange that for Jane Fonda.
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That, like “The Dirty Dozen, is a movie that never gets old. I think it’s because it’s not a story about war as the main focus, or the military, it’s a story about men. Like “Cool Hand Luke.”
p.s.: I still cringe at the scene of the poor Chinaman who gets into the piston well to fix the engine. You don’t see what happens, but you know he’s doomed when he goes in, and it still makes makes the Honore de Balsac shrink to watch.
I had a history prof at IUPUI who loved this movie. I’ve never seen it, but I know the period it refers to and it is apparently a great piece of historical fiction.
Yeah, MTS, and that’s how ALL maintenance was done in those days- in direct harms way.
McQueen was such a big star in the 60’s. He appeared in so many great films. My favorite is “The Great Escape”.
I love this movie, I watched it also yesterday morning.
The book is very good also, if you are interested in the history of China and the rise of the Commies.
I LOVE the idea of using a live-steam lance to defend the ship from boarders.
Can you imagine what if felt like getting hit by superheated steam at 300 psi?
Bullet? Not so bad, compared to that.
Boarders will be served medium rare. Damn it Og now I have to go get the movie and watch it again. Been too long.
You bet I got two hun-ned yankee dollah!
The last scenes were fake, though. What military man would wait in the courtyard like a duck in a shooting gallery?
better to leave the building and watch the exit.
Bad “Hollywood” “tactics”.