The Sand Pebbles

Release Date: 1966-12-20

Rating: ⭐ 7.2/10 (257 votes)

Genres: Drama, War

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.

Production: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox