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.
Original title
The Sand Pebbles
Released
12/20/1966
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama, War
Production companies
20th Century Fox, Solar Productions, Robert Wise Productions
Budget
$12,000,000.00
Revenue
$20,000,000.00
Runtime
3hr 16min
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.
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