The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Country: US
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 1966-12-20
Director: Robert Wise
Production: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako
Tagline: This is the heroic story of the men on the U.S.S. San Pablo who disturbed the sleeping dragon of savage China as the threatened world watched in breathless terror.
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