The Sand Pebbles
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.
7.2(285) 1966-12-20 196 minDramaWar
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.
DirectorRobert Wise
ScreenplayRobert Anderson
ProducerRobert Wise
Original Music ComposerJerry Goldsmith
Cast & characters
Steve McQueen
as Jake Holman
Richard Attenborough
as Frenchy Burgoyne
Richard Crenna
as Captain Collins
Candice Bergen
as Shirley Eckert
Mako
as Po-han
Larry Gates
as Jameson
Charles Robinson
as Ensign Bordelles
Simon Oakland
as Stawski
Ford Rainey
as Harris
Joe Turkel
as Bronson
Gavin MacLeod
as Crosley
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Joe Di Reda
as Shanahan
Richard Loo
as Major Chin
Barney Phillips
as Franks
James Hong
as Victor Shu
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Gus Trikonis
as Restorff
Emmanuelle Arsan
as Maily
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Shepherd Sanders
as Perna
James Jeter
as Farren
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Tom Middleton
as Jennings
Paul Chun Pui
as Cho-jen
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Tommy Lee
as Chien
Beulah Quo
as Mama Chunk
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Stephen Jahn
as Haythorn
