The Sand Pebbles
Drama • War


Theatrical Release (US)
~ 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. ~
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.
Director:
Robert Wise
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$12,000,000.00
Revenue:
$20,000,000.00
Key words:
- china
- missionary
- u.s. navy
- chinese
- battle
- gunboat
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