The Sand Pebbles (1966)
7.5/10
182 min
1966
en
Action
Adventure
Drama
Romance
War
Synopsis
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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.—Martin H. Booda
Cast
James Hong as Victor Shu Steve McQueen as Jake Holman Candice Bergen as Shirley Eckert Richard Attenborough as Frenchy Burgoyne
