The Sand Pebbles
"This is the heroic story of the men on the U.S.S. San Pablo who disturbed the sleeping dragon of savage China as the threatened world watched in breathless terror."
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.
About The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Released in 1966, The Sand Pebbles is a drama and war film from Robert Wise Productions (United States of America). It was directed by Robert Wise and written by Robert Anderson. The cast is led by Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen and Mako. With a runtime of 3h 16m, the film averages 7.2/10 across 293 TMDB ratings. It was made on a budget of $12,000,000 and went on to gross $20,000,000 worldwide.
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