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The Sand Pebbles

Name: The Sand Pebbles
Director: Robert Wise
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1966-12-20
Duration: 196 min
Rating: 7.199
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako

Release Date: December 20, 1966

Genre: Drama, War

Duration: 3h 16m

Rating: ⭐ 7.2/10

Director: Robert Wise

Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako

Storyline

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.