The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War, Romance
Actor: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako Iwamatsu
Production: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
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