The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Released: 20 Dec 1966
Runtime: 182 min
Rated: APPROVED
Director: Robert Wise
Writer(s): Richard McKenna (novel), Robert Anderson (screenplay)
Actors: Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
Awards: Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations.
IMDB Ratings: 7.7
Plot: Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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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