The Sand Pebbles
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Ford Rainey · Richard McKenna · Mako · Robert Anderson · Robert Wise · Richard Crenna · Candice Bergen · Charles Robinson · Steve McQueen · Richard Attenborough · Simon Oakland · Joe Turkel · Larry Gates
Studios & networks
20th Century Fox · Robert Wise Productions · Solar Productions