The Sand Pebbles
1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise
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7.2Engineer 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.
Released: 1966-12-20196 minDir: Robert WiseDrama, War
Cast
- Steve McQueen as Jake Holman
- Richard Attenborough as Frenchy Burgoyne
- Richard Crenna as Captain Collins
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Eckert
- Mako as Po-han
- Larry Gates as Jameson
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1960s adventure drama films1960s Mandarin-language films1960s war drama films1966 American films1966 drama films1966 English-language films1966 films1966 multilingual films20th Century Fox filmsAmerican adventure drama filmsAmerican war drama filmsAmerican war epic filmsChinese-language American films