The Sand Pebbles

Title:

The Sand Pebbles

Genres:

Drama , War

Companies:

Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox

Countries:

United States of America

Release Date:

1966-12-20

Runtime:

196

Languages:

普通话, English

Status:

Released

Tagline:

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.

Budget:

$12000000

Revenue:

$20000000

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.