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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

PG-13 ★ 7.2/10 196 min Drama, War United States English
Director: Robert Wise
Novel: Richard McKenna
Screenplay by: Robert Anderson
Streaming: Not available
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.

Description

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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Top Cast

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen Jake Holman
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough Frenchy Burgoyne
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna Captain Collins
Candice Bergen
Candice Bergen Shirley Eckert
Mako
Mako Po-han
Larry Gates
Larry Gates Jameson
Charles Robinson
Charles Robinson Ensign Bordelles
Simon Oakland
Simon Oakland Stawski

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