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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. - The Sand Pebbles
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Title: The Sand Pebbles

Release Date: 20 Dec 1966

Runtime: 3h 16m

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.2 (251 votes)

Cast

  • Jake Holman: Steve McQueen
  • Frenchy Burgoyne: Richard Attenborough
  • Captain Collins: Richard Crenna
  • Shirley Eckert: Candice Bergen
  • Po-han: Mako
  • Jameson: Larry Gates
  • Ensign Bordelles: Charles Robinson
  • Stawski: Simon Oakland
  • Harris: Ford Rainey
  • Bronson: Joe Turkel
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