The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles(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.

December 20, 1966
3h 16m
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IMDb7.517,295
RT85%
TMDB7.2271

Overview

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.

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Cast

Crew

Screenplay

Robert Anderson

Director

Robert Wise

Director of Photography

Joseph MacDonald

Producer

Robert Wise

Executive Producer

Steve McQueen

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Box Office

Budget

$12.0M

Revenue

$20.0M

Profit

+$8.0M

Details

Original Language

en

Country

United States of America

Production

Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox

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