Editing The Sand Pebbles (film) (section)

==Release==
It rained the night of the premiere, December 20, 1966, at the Rivoli Theatre, [[750 Seventh Avenue]], New York City. Afterward, McQueen did not do any film work for about a year due to exhaustion, saying that whatever sins he had committed in his life had been paid for when he made ''The Sand Pebbles''.<ref name=KurcfeldM>Kurcfeld, Michael, (2007). – Documentary: ''The Making of "The Sand Pebbles"''. – Stonehenge Media</ref><ref name=ToffelN>McQueen Toffel, Neile, (1986). – Excerpt: [http://www.thesandpebbles.com/neile_mcqueen/neile_mcqueen.htm ''My Husband, My Friend''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515161832/http://www.thesandpebbles.com/neile_mcqueen/neile_mcqueen.htm |date=May 15, 2008 }}. – (c/o The Sand Pebbles). – New York, New York: Atheneum. – {{ISBN|0-689-11637-3}}</ref> He was not seen on film again until two 1968 films, ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]'' and ''[[Bullitt]]''.

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $21,200,000 in rentals to break even, and by December 1970, made $20,600,000.<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/325 325]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856 }}</ref> In September 1970, the studio recorded a loss of $895,000 on the movie.<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/259 259]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856 }}</ref>