The Sand Pebbles (1966)
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.
The Sand PebblesDrama, War
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
- Joe Di Reda — Shanahan
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