The Sand Pebbles

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.

Drama War

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.

star 7.2
  • Release Date: 1966-12-20
  • Runtime: 3h 2min
  • Director: Robert Wise

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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

  • Joe Di Reda

    Shanahan

  • Richard Loo

    Major Chin

  • Barney Phillips

    Franks

  • James Hong

    Victor Shu

  • Gus Trikonis

    Restorff

  • Emmanuelle Arsan

    Maily

  • Shepherd Sanders

    Perna

  • James Jeter

    Farren

  • Tom Middleton

    Jennings

  • Paul Chun Pui

    Cho-jen

  • Tommy Lee

    Chien

  • Beulah Quo

    Mama Chunk

  • Stephen Jahn

    Haythorn

  • Alan Hopkins

    Wilsey

  • Stephen Ferry

    Lamb

  • Ted Fish

    Wellbeck

  • Loren Janes

    Coleman

  • Glenn R. Wilder

    Waldron

  • Robert Kelly-Schleyer

    Bosun's Mate (uncredited)

  • Robert Emhardt

    Officer on San Pablo (uncredited)

  • Walter Reed

    Bidder at Red Kettle Bar (uncredited)

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