The Sand Pebbles [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox

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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.

Director

Robert Wise

Cast

Steve McQueen,Richard Attenborough,Richard Crenna,Candice Bergen,Emmanuelle Arsan,Mako

Runtime

182 min

IMDb

7.5

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