The Sand Pebbles (movie)
- User score: 7.2
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Robert Wise
- Production companies: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Genre: Drama, War
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Revenue: $20,000,000
- Release date: 12/20/1966
- Run time: 196 min.
Movie description
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.
