The Sand Pebbles

Name: The Sand Pebbles
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1966-12-20
Duration: 196 min
Rating: 7.2

“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.”

7.2 / 10 (294 votes)

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.

Release Date December 20, 1966

Runtime 196 min

Genres Drama, War

Status Released

Budget $12,000,000

Revenue $20,000,000

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