The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

Released on
Drama, War
Runtime
196 mins
(244 votes)

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
  • Robert Emhardt
  • Walter Reed

Director

  • Robert Wise

Producers

  • Robert Wise

Screenwriter

  • Robert Anderson

Similar Movies