The Sand Pebbles (1966)
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.
Release : 1966
Runtime : 196 minutes
Cast : Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Larry Gates
Crew : Robert Anderson (Screenplay), Richard McKenna (Novel), Robert Wise (Director), William Reynolds (Editor), Walter M. Scott (Set Decoration), William Kiernan (Set Decoration)
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