The Sand Pebbles
“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.”
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.
Release Date
December 20, 1966
Runtime
3h 16m
Language
English
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The Sand Pebbles
Steve McQueen
Richard Attenborough
Richard Crenna
Candice Bergen
Mako
Larry Gates
Charles Robinson
Simon Oakland
Ford Rainey
Joe Turkel
