Title: The Sand Pebbles (The Sand Pebbles)
Release Date: 1966-12-20
IMDB ID: tt0060934
Vote Average: 7.2 (272 votes)
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.
Cast: Steve McQueen (Jake Holman), Richard Attenborough (Frenchy Burgoyne), Richard Crenna (Captain Collins), Candice Bergen (Shirley Eckert), Mako (Po-han), Larry Gates (Jameson),
Crew: Robert Anderson (Screenplay), Richard McKenna (Novel), Robert Wise (Director), William Reynolds (Editor), Walter M. Scott (Set Decoration), William Kiernan (Set Decoration),