Movie: The Sand Pebbles

Year: 1966

Also Known As: El Yang-Tsé en llamas

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Genres: Drama | Romance | War

Cast: Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Emmanuelle Arsan, Mako, Larry Gates, Charles Robinson, Simon Oakland, Ford Rainey…

Rated: 7.7/10 from 6,009 votes on IMDb

Tagline: THE STORY OF MEN…men who disturbed the sleeping dragon of China as the world watched in terror!

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Plot: Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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: 20 December 1966 (USA)

Runtime: 182

Directors: Robert Wise

Writers: Richard McKenna, Robert Anderson

Countries: USA

Budget: $12,000,000

Languages: English, Mandarin

Location: Hong Kong, China

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