In 1926 China, engineer Jake Holman joins the gunboat USS San Pablo on a Yangtze tributary. His cynical, independent streak clashes with the ship's 'rice-bowl' system and the tense Chinese-foreigner dynamic, until a rescue mission upriver forces the boat through a river-boom.
- Directors
- Robert Wise
- Cast
- Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Larry Gates, Charles Robinson, Simon Oakland, Ford Rainey, Joe Turkel, Gavin MacLeod, Joe Di Reda, Richard Loo, Barney Phillips, James Hong, Gus Trikonis, Emmanuelle Arsan, Shepherd Sanders, James Jeter, Tom Middleton
- Country
- United States of America, Taiwan, Hong Kong
- Genre
- Drama, War
- Release date
- 1966-12-20
- Studios
- Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
The Sand Pebbles Plot and Cast
Jake Holman, an engineer, arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, tasked with patrolling a tributary of the Yangtze amid exploited and revolution-torn China in 1926. His iconoclastic and cynical nature puts him at odds with the 'rice-bowl' system that runs the ship and the uneasy coexistence between Chinese and foreigners on the river. Hostility toward the gunboat peaks when it must crash through a river-boom to rescue missionaries at China Light Mission upriver.
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