The Sand Pebbles

Movie

The Sand Pebbles

Drama

War

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.

Date: 12/20/1966

Rating: 7.2

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

Steve McQueen