Item Details
The Sand Pebbles [videorecording]
20th Century Fox ; a Robert Wise production ; an Argyle-Solar Productions picture ; screenplay by Robert Anderson ; directed by Robert Wise.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Performer(s)
- Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane, Mako, Larry Gates.
- Release Date
- 1966
- Run Time
- 379 min.
- Language
- Closed-captioned (both discs).
- Disc 1 : English, French, or Spanish soundtracks; English or Spanish subtitles. Disc 2 : English soundtrack; English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
- Notes
- Disc 1: dual layer, widescreen, 2.35:1 ; disc 2: double sided, widescreen 2.20:1.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
- Based on the novel by Richard McKenna.
- Special features: Disc 1: commentary with director Robert Wise and actors Candice Bergen, Mako, and Richard Crenna; isolated soundtrack with commentary by music producer Nick Redman, film music historian Jon Burlingame, and Lem Dobbs, film historian and screenwriter of The limey and Dark city. Disc 2: Side B: Introductions by Robert Wise and Richard Zanuck; the Making of The Sand Pebbles featurettes: Weighing anchor; cast & characters; Rough seas; McQueen on deck; sound & image; A worthy vessel ; side bars: Steve McQueen remembered, Robert Wise in command, China 1926; from the Fox vault: A ship called San Pablo, narrated by Richard Attenborough; The secret of the San Pablo, narrated by Richard Crenna; radio documentaries narrated by Richard Attenborough: Changsha Bund and the Streets of Taipei; A ship called San Pablo; radio spots; original theatrical trailer; still galleries; MAD Magazine's The Sand Pebbles.
- Series
- Cinema classics collection
- Series statement
- Cinema classics collection
- Cinema classics collection.
- Contents
- Disc 1: Theatrical version. Disc 2: Extended Roadshow version
- Credits
- Director of photography, Joseph MacDonald ; film editor, William Reynolds ; music, Jerry Goldsmith.
- Published
- Beverly Hills, Calif. :Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,c2007.
- Publisher no.
- 2244058 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Description
- 2 videodiscs (183,196 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. ; 16 cm.) + 4 lobby cards. DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby 4.0 or 5.1 surround.
- Technical details
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