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."

Dec 20 1966 Approved 3h 2m
Adventure, Drama, Romance

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.

Plot

In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.

Written by

Richard McKenna, Robert Anderson

Directed by

Robert Wise

Cast

Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox, Solar Productions, Robert Wise Productions

Languages

Italiano, Español, English

Awards

Nominated for 8 Oscars. 2 wins & 21 nominations total

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