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The Sand Pebbles: Directed by Robert Wise. With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen. In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy machinist's mate first class, aboard the fictional river gunboat USS San Pablo, on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China. The production was filmed on location in Taiwan and Hong Kong.. The film stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna and ...
In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River during the clashes between Chiang Kai-shek's communists and Chinese warlords. Eight-year veteran machinist Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), new to ...
Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough tunneled out of a World War II prison camp together in The Great Escape, scoring a major hit in the process, so pairing them again in The Sand Pebbles made excellent sense three years later. The setting of the 1966 production is China in the wake of World War I, when the United States Asiatic Fleet roamed through the region enforcing the Open Door Policy ...
China, 1926. The country is torn by revolution and exploited by foreigners. Jake Holman, an American sailor who serves as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. San...
For troubled hero Jake Holman (Steve "Lightning" McQueen), no good deed goes unpunished. Transferred in 1926 to the U.S.S. San Pablo (whose crew is nicknamed the "Sand Pebbles"), a gunboat serving on the Yangtze River Patrol in China, engineer Holman finds that Chinese coolies are actually doing most of the work on the ship.
1966 The Sand Pebbles Official Trailer 1 Solar ProductionsCategory: Adventure, Drama, RomanceProduction: Solar ProductionsDirector: Robert WiseCast:Steve McQ...
Jul 4, 2022 · In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.Directed by Robert Wise.Written by Richard McKenna (novel) an...
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 ...
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
