The Sand Pebbles (1966)

12/20/1966 3h 16m

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.

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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.

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Cast Ages at Release

Steve McQueen

as Jake Holman

Born 03/24/1930

Died 11/07/1980, age

Richard Attenborough

as Frenchy Burgoyne

Born 08/29/1923

Died 08/24/2014, age

Richard Crenna

as Captain Collins

Born 11/30/1926

Died 01/17/2003, age

Candice Bergen

as Shirley Eckert

Born 05/09/1946, age

Mako

as Po-han

Born 12/10/1933

Died 07/21/2006, age

Larry Gates

as Jameson

Born 09/24/1915

Died 12/12/1996, age

Simon Oakland

as Stawski

Born 08/28/1915

Died 08/29/1983, age

Barney Phillips

as Franks

Born 10/20/1913

Died 08/17/1982, age

James Hong

as Victor Shu

Born 02/22/1929, age

Paul Chun

as Cho-jen

Born 06/26/1945, age

Walter Reed

as Bidder at Red Kettle Bar (uncredited)

Born 02/10/1916

Died 08/20/2001, age