The Sand Pebbles
7.2
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.
- Originial Title
- The Sand Pebbles
- Tagline
- 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.
- Release Date
- December 20, 1966
- Runtime
- 3h 16min
- Budget
- $12,000,000.00
- Revenue
- $20,000,000.00
- Original Language
- English
- Status
- Released