The Sand Pebbles

PG-13

“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.”

1966·196 min·Released

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

7.2TMDb

Theatrical Dec 20, 1966

Nexus ms20444TMDb 5923IMDb tt0060934

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USA · English · USA

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.