The Sand Pebbles

December. 20,1966      PG-13
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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