The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman joins the gunboat USS San Pablo as it patrols a tributary of the Yangtze River in exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical worldview collide with the ship's entrenched 'rice-bowl' system and the uneasy coexistence between Chinese and foreign crewmates along the river. Hostility toward the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when circumstances force the vessel to ram through a river boom to reach upriver missionaries at the China Light Mission.
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Gus Trikonis
Robert Wise
Ridgeway Callow
Charles H. Maguire
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Facts
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Fox spent $250,000 to build a replica gunboat named the San Pablo based on the seized USS Villalobos.
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Filming took seven months instead of the scheduled nine weeks after a 15-foot camera boat capsized and sank its soundboard.
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The directors of The Sand Pebbles are Gus Trikonis, Robert Wise, Ridgeway Callow, and Charles H. Maguire.
The cast of The Sand Pebbles includes Richard Loo as Major Chin, James Hong as Victor Shu, Tommy Lee as Chien, Richard Crenna as Captain Collins, Joe Turkel as Bronson, Candice Bergen as Shirley Eckert, Robert Emhardt as Officer on San Pablo (uncredited), Ford Rainey as Harris, Simon Oakland as Stawski, Richard Attenborough as Frenchy Burgoyne, Mako as Po-han, Paul Chun Pui as Cho-jen, and more.
The duration of The Sand Pebbles is 3h 16 mins.
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The Sand Pebbles was released on 20 Dec 1966.
The Sand Pebbles is listed under Drama and War on Fanbiz.
1. Fox spent $250,000 to build a replica gunboat named the San Pablo based on the seized USS Villalobos. 2. Filming took seven months instead of the scheduled nine weeks after a 15-foot camera boat capsized and sank its soundboard.
