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The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Directed by Robert Wise
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.
Rated PG-13 | Length 196 minutes
Actors
Steve McQueen | Richard Attenborough | Richard Crenna | Candice Bergen | Mako | Larry Gates | Charles Robinson | Simon Oakland | Ford Rainey | Joe Turkel | Gavin MacLeod | Joe Di Reda | Richard Loo | Barney Phillips | James Hong | Gus Trikonis | Emmanuelle Arsan | Shepherd Sanders | James Jeter | Tom Middleton | Paul Chun | Tommy Lee | Beulah Quo | Stephen Jahn | Alan Hopkins | Stephen Ferry | Ted Fish | Loren Janes | Glenn R. Wilder | Robert Kelly-Schleyer