The Sand Pebbles1966
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.
Director
Screenplay
Robert Anderson
Actors
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Larry Gates, Simon Oakland, Joe Turkel, James Hong, Gus Trikonis, Paul Chun Pui, Walter Reed
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 196 Minutes
Genres
FSK
12
About the film
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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Ratings
7.2tmdb
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