The Sand Pebbles

Name: The Sand Pebbles
Released: 1966

Release: Dec 20, 1966
Rating: 7.2/10 (TMDB)
Runtime: 196 min
Status: Released
Language: English
Budget: $12,000,000
Revenue: $20,000,000
Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Robert Anderson, Richard McKenna

Drama War

Synopsis

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.