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 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | The Sand Pebbles | |
Runtime | 3h 16min | |
Budget | $12,000,000 | |
Revenue | $20,000,000 | |
Language | Mandarin, English | |
Original Language | English | |
Production Countries | United States of America | |
Production Companies | Robert Wise ProductionsSolar Productions20th Century Fox |