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."

The Sand Pebbles

7.5 | 3h16m | PG-13 | en | Drama

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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7.5 | 3h16m | PG-13 | en | Drama , War

Synopsis

Cast

Steve McQueen , Richard Attenborough , Richard Crenna

Director

Boris Leven

Producted By

20th Century Fox , Solar Productions

Trailers

Cast

Steve McQueen

as Jake Holman

[2021] Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie [2015] Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans [2014] I Am Steve McQueen [2005] Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool [2005] Dust to Glory [2002] The Kid Stays in the Picture [2001] On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm & More [1998] 'Bullitt': Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality [1993] The Curse of the Dragon

Richard Attenborough

as Frenchy Burgoyne

[2014] Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film [2005] Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool [2003] Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin [2002] Forever Ealing [2001] Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story [2001] Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story [2000] The Railway Children [1999] Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [1998] Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

Richard Crenna

as Captain Collins

[2003] Out of the Ashes [2001] The Day Reagan Was Shot [2000] Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For [1997] Deep Family Secrets [1997] Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent [1997] 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1996] Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah [1995] Jade [1995] Sabrina