![The Sand Pebbles Poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500//hbX0bBHTFThyChUel3INrvEZiFF.jpg)
The Sand Pebbles
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December 20, 1966
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Drama, War
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.
Featured Crew
Robert Anderson
Screenplay
Robert Wise
Director
Richard McKenna
Novel
Cast
![Steve McQueen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//xUxg7SAM17eEc0rF90gz59Ap0w1.jpg)
Steve McQueen
Jake Holman
![Richard Attenborough](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//gNfQNsx9SrQpHt8Eq6CUwycH9Iu.jpg)
Richard Attenborough
Frenchy Burgoyne
![Richard Crenna](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//dsViQ2ate32xTSQgxoEHKQl0Evj.jpg)
Richard Crenna
Captain Collins
![Candice Bergen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//nElAkiKaYlO039KgvWVZAC1fHTk.jpg)
Candice Bergen
Shirley Eckert
![Mako](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//qrt9yI5sEEemzVAEh8mtI6E68L0.jpg)
Mako
Po-han