The Sand Pebbles 1966

Synopsis

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 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

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