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The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Adventure, Drama, Romantic, War | United States

Director: Robert Wise

Great! Movies Action | Friday 5 April 2024 | 18:31

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Rating: 7.5/10

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SYNOPSIS

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.

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Writer: Richard McKenna, Robert Anderson

Producer: Charles H. Maguire, Steve McQueen

RUNTIME: 182 min

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