The Sand Pebbles
Release Date: 1966-12-20
Rating : 7.2/10
Duration : 196 minutes
Genres : Drama, War
Director : Robert Wise
Writer : Robert Anderson
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.
Cast
Steve McQueen
Richard Attenborough
Richard Crenna
Candice Bergen
Mako
Larry Gates