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.
19663h 16mNo ratings yet
- Adventure
- Drama
- War
Overview
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.
Keywords
- battle
- china
- u.s. navy
- chinese
- missionary
- gunboat
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 20, 1966
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Chinese, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Steve McQueen,Richard Attenborough,Richard Crenna,Candice Bergen,Mako,Larry Gates,Charles Robinson,Simon Oakland,Ford Rainey,Joe Turkeland 22 more
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Producer
- Robert Wise,Steve McQueen
- Cinematography
- Joseph MacDonald
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Revenue
- $20,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0060934