The Sand Pebbles
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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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Steve McQueenJake Holman
Richard AttenboroughFrenchy Burgoyne
Richard CrennaCaptain Collins
Candice BergenShirley Eckert
MakoPo-han
Larry GatesJameson
Charles RobinsonEnsign Bordelles
Simon OaklandStawski
Ford RaineyHarris
Joe TurkelBronson
Gavin MacLeodCrosleyExplore the crew
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Screenplay
- Robert Anderson
- Editor
- William Reynolds
- Director of Photography
- Joseph MacDonald
- Producer
- Robert Wise
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith