
The Sand Pebbles
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 en 196 minutes
Rating: 7.2
Plot
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

Steve McQueen
Jake Holman

Richard Attenborough
Frenchy Burgoyne

Richard Crenna
Captain Collins

Candice Bergen
Shirley Eckert

Mako
Po-han

Larry Gates
Jameson

Charles Robinson
Ensign Bordelles

Simon Oakland
Stawski

Ford Rainey
Harris

Joe Turkel
Bronson

Gavin MacLeod
Crosley

Joe Di Reda
Shanahan

Richard Loo
Major Chin

Barney Phillips
Franks

James Hong
Victor Shu

Gus Trikonis
Restorff

Emmanuelle Arsan
Maily

Shepherd Sanders
Perna

James Jeter
Farren

Tom Middleton
Jennings

Paul Chun Pui
Cho-jen

Tommy Lee
Chien

Beulah Quo
Mama Chunk

Stephen Jahn
Haythorn

Alan Hopkins
Wilsey

Stephen Ferry
Lamb

Ted Fish
Wellbeck

Loren Janes
Coleman

Glenn R. Wilder
Waldron

Robert Kelly-Schleyer
Bosun's Mate (uncredited)

Robert Emhardt
Officer on San Pablo (uncredited)

Walter Reed
Bidder at Red Kettle Bar (uncredited)