The Sand Pebbles (1966)
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.
182 min
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.
- Release date
- December 20, 1966
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Box office
- $20,000,000
Trailer
Cast
- Steve McQueen as Jake Holman
- Richard Attenborough as Frenchy Burgoyne
- Richard Crenna as Captain Collins
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Eckert
- Emmanuelle Arsan as Maily
- Mako as Po-han
- Larry Gates as Jameson
- Charles Robinson as Ensign Bordelles
- Simon Oakland as Stawski
- Ford Rainey as Harris
Crew
- Robert Wise · Director
- Richard McKenna · Writer
- Robert Anderson · Writer
- Jerry Goldsmith · Composer
- Joseph MacDonald · Cinematographer
- William Reynolds · Editor
- Boris Leven · Production designer