The Sand Pebbles
DramaWar
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.
Director(s): Gus Trikonis.
Writers(s): Emmanuelle Arsan.
Stars(s): Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen.
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Runtime: 196mins
Release Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1966 00:00:00 GMT