The Sand Pebbles
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.
Top Billed Cast
Steve McQueen
Jake Holman
Richard Attenborough
Frenchy Burgoyne
Richard Crenna
Captain Collins
Candice Bergen
Shirley Eckert
Mako
Po-han
Featured Crew
Robert Anderson
Screenplay
Richard McKenna
Novel
Robert Wise
Director
William Reynolds
Editor
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
William Kiernan
Set Decoration
John Sturtevant
Set Decoration
Boris Leven
Production Design
Renié
Costume Design
Joseph MacDonald
Director of Photography
Saul Wurtzel
Unit Production Manager
William Turner
Makeup Artist
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