The Sand Pebbles (1966)
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.
Synopsis
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
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Steve McQueen
as Jake Holman
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Richard Attenborough
as Frenchy Burgoyne
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Richard Crenna
as Captain Collins
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Candice Bergen
as Shirley Eckert
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Mako
as Po-han
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Larry Gates
as Jameson
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Charles Robinson
as Ensign Bordelles
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Simon Oakland
as Stawski
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Ford Rainey
as Harris
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Joe Turkel
as Bronson
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Gavin MacLeod
as Crosley
- Joe Di Reda as Shanahan
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Richard Loo
as Major Chin
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Barney Phillips
as Franks
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James Hong
as Victor Shu
- Gus Trikonis as Restorff
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Emmanuelle Arsan
as Maily
- Shepherd Sanders as Perna
Crew
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Robert Wise
Director
- Joseph MacDonald Director of Photography
- William Reynolds Editor
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Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
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Robert Wise
Producer
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Robert Anderson
Screenplay
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