The Sand Pebbles

Right.

The Great Escape and S- The Sand Pebbles.

Yeah.

It's...

Uh, he was in Young Winston, Bridge of course, Magic, Chaplin, and Shadowlands.

[gunshots]

You know, Richard Attenborough, having worked with John Sturges on The Great Escape and working with Robert Wise on The Sand Pebbles, got a frontline course in directing that probably should not be underestimated.

"Cause Wise and Sturges were both terrific directors, but particularly good with action sequences.

So you saw a couple of movie trailers there at the beginning that I showed.

The Sand Pebbles starring Steve McQueen and Georgie Girl starring Lynn Redgrave.

What do those movies have in common? They came out in the year 1966, which is a year I've been thinking about lately for a number of reasons, one of which is there's an interesting 1966 anniversary that's coming up in a couple weeks that I really do intend to do a show on.

in the second half of October.

It has that 60s kind of feel.

So just the soundtrack makes it feel like the 60s there.

The Sand Pebbles is the other movie I showed, also from 1966, starring Steve McQueen.

And it's set on an American gunboat in China in the late 1920s.

Agreed.

Who said Sand Pebbles is superior to Bullet? Of course it is.

Sand Pebbles could use a deluxe 4K edition too.

Um, but yeah, I'm excited

excitedAll right.

It was up against Alfie.

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

I know.

It did win one, two, three, four, five, six Oscars for Best Picture, Actor for Paul Schofield, Directing for Fred Zinnemann, Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Cinetography, color, because they were still doing black and white versus color.

And what I mean by that is like, I've always viewed McQueen in the same way that I view like Sean Connery or Clint Eastwood or people like that who are like, can be great actors, but are mainly great screen presences more than they are great actors.

Yeah, I think it's, well, I love the Sand Pebbles where he got a Best Actor nom for that movie.

And, you know, he's, you know, it's still massive canvas, massive epic.

But, you know, he is trying to, like, imbue this kind of, like, character with, you know, a lot of internal kind of stuff and doing a lot with his face and his eyes.

All right, let's spin the wheel for your final one today.

All right, the 1966 Steve McQueen film, The Sand Pebbles.

I hate to say I don't even know that film.

So not knowing it, I'll