The Sand Pebbles
- Released on
- Runtime
- 196 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Steve McQueen
- Richard Attenborough
- Richard Crenna
- Candice Bergen
- Mako
- Larry Gates
- Charles Robinson
- Simon Oakland
- Ford Rainey
- Joe Turkel
- Gavin MacLeod
- Joe Di Reda
- Richard Loo
- Barney Phillips
- James Hong
- Gus Trikonis
- Emmanuelle Arsan
- Shepherd Sanders
- James Jeter
- Tom Middleton
- Paul Chun Pui
- Tommy Lee
- Beulah Quo
- Stephen Jahn
- Alan Hopkins
- Stephen Ferry
- Ted Fish
- Loren Janes
- Glenn R. Wilder
- Robert Kelly-Schleyer
Director
- Robert Wise
Producers
- Robert Wise
Screenwriter
- Robert Anderson
