Film · 1966 · 3h 16m

The Sand Pebbles

Name: The Sand Pebbles
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1966-12-20
Duration: 3 h 16 min
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako

Drama War

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Synopsis

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.