The Sand Pebbles (1966)3h16
Drama · War
Director Robert Wise (7.1 avg)
Also directed The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and 36 more
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
Richard Attenborough
Richard Crenna
Candice Bergen
Mako
Larry Gates
Charles Robinson
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