Info
Year: | 1966 |
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Original Title: | The Sand Pebbles |
Length: | 182 minutes |
Genre: | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
Studios: | Twentieth Century-Fox |
Release Dates
United Kingdom: April 05 1967
United States: December 20 1966
Ranking
Ranking: 8,771 out of 16,288 movies (up 712)
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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.