Film

The Sand Pebbles

1966 · 3h 16m · 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.

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

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.

Steve McQueen

Jake Holman

Richard Attenborough

Frenchy Burgoyne

Richard Crenna

Captain Collins

Candice Bergen

Shirley Eckert

Mako

Po-han

Larry Gates

Jameson

Charles Robinson

Ensign Bordelles

Simon Oakland

Stawski

Ford Rainey

Harris

Joe Turkel

Bronson

Gavin MacLeod

Crosley

Joe Di Reda

Shanahan

Richard Loo

Major Chin

Barney Phillips

Franks

James Hong

Victor Shu

Gus Trikonis

Restorff

• Robert WiseDirector · Producer
• Robert AndersonScreenplay
• Richard McKennaNovel
• Steve McQueenExecutive Producer
• Joseph MacDonaldDirector of Photography
• Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
• William ReynoldsEditor

The Sand Pebbles Trailer

Release date

December 20, 1966

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

3h 16m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

$20,000,000

Genres

Drama, War

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