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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Drama War

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.

Release Date: 1966, December 20
Directors: Robert Wise
Countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States of America
Production: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Cast: James Hong, Simon Oakland, Joe Turkel, Richard Crenna, Charles Robinson, Mako, Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Loo, Paul Chun Pui, Tommy Lee

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

battle u.s. navy china chinese missionary gunboat