The Sand Pebbles
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.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Robinson, Ford Rainey, Joe Turkel, Larry Gates, Mako, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Simon Oakland, Steve McQueen
Country: USA