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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

3h 16m · 20 Dec 1966

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.

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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.

Movie ID4581
GenreDrama, War
DirectorRobert Wise
Main castSteve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Larry Gates, Charles Robinson, Simon Oakland
Release date20 December 1966
Release year1966
LanguageMandarin
Duration196 min (3h 16m)
Rating7.2 / 10 (TMDB)
Production houseRobert Wise Productions

Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Robert Anderson

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Steve McQueenJake Holman Richard AttenboroughFrenchy Burgoyne Richard CrennaCaptain Collins Candice BergenShirley Eckert MakoPo-han Larry GatesJameson Charles RobinsonEnsign Bordelles Simon OaklandStawski Ford RaineyHarris Joe TurkelBronson Gavin MacLeodCrosley
Joe Di RedaShanahan
Richard LooMajor Chin Barney PhillipsFranks James HongVictor Shu
Gus TrikonisRestorff
Emmanuelle ArsanMaily
Shepherd SandersPerna
James JeterFarren
Tom MiddletonJennings

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