1966
The Sand Pebbles
Drama, War

7.2
USER SCORE
280 VOTES
STATUS
Released
LANGUAGE
English
BUDGET
$12,000,000.00
PRODUCTION
Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
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.