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The Sand Pebbles

This is the heroic story of the men on the U.S.S. San Pablo who disturbed the sleeping dragon of savage China as the threatened world watched in breathless terror.

Description: 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.

Genres: Drama, War

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Budget: $12,000,000 | Revenue : $20,000,000

Runtime: 196 minutes

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Steve McQueen

Played Jake Holman

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Richard Attenborough

Played Frenchy Burgoyne

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Richard Crenna

Played Captain Collins

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Candice Bergen

Played Shirley Eckert

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Mako

Played Po-han

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Larry Gates

Played Jameson

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Charles Robinson

Played Ensign Bordelles

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Simon Oakland

Played Stawski

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Ford Rainey

Played Harris

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Joe Turkel

Played Bronson

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Gavin MacLeod

Played Crosley

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Joe Di Reda

Played Shanahan

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Richard Loo

Played Major Chin

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Barney Phillips

Played Franks

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James Hong

Played Victor Shu

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Gus Trikonis

Played Restorff

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Emmanuelle Arsan

Played Maily

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Shepherd Sanders

Played Perna

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James Jeter

Played Farren

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Tom Middleton

Played Jennings

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Paul Chun Pui

Played Cho-jen

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Tommy Lee

Played Chien

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Beulah Quo

Played Mama Chunk

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Stephen Jahn

Played Haythorn

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Alan Hopkins

Played Wilsey

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Stephen Ferry

Played Lamb

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Ted Fish

Played Wellbeck

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Loren Janes

Played Coleman

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Glenn R. Wilder

Played Waldron

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Robert Kelly-Schleyer

Played Bosun's Mate (uncredited)

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