The Sand Pebbles
IMDb7.21080P1966196 min
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.
- Country: United States of America, Taiwan, Hong Kong
- Genres: Drama, War
- Released: 1966-12-20
- Directors: Robert Wise
- Productions: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Casts: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
