

The Sand Pebbles (1966)
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.
Release Date : December 20, 1966
Runtime : 196m
Companies : Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Countries : United States of America
Keywords : china, missionary, u.s. navy, chinese, battle, gunboat