The Sand Pebbles

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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Directed by Robert Wise

“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.”

Drama, War · 3h 16m

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.

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Cast

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
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Joe Di Reda Shanahan

Crew

Director
Robert Wise
Screenplay
Robert Anderson
Novel
Richard McKenna
Director of Photography
Joseph MacDonald
Original Music Composer
Jerry Goldsmith
Editor
William Reynolds
Producer
Robert Wise

Details

Release date
1966-12-20
Runtime
3h 16m
Genres
Drama, War
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
Mandarin, English
Countries
United States of America, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Production
Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Budget
$12,000,000
Box office
$20,000,000