The Sand Pebbles

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.

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  Steve McQueen

  Jake Holman
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  Richard Attenborough

  Frenchy Burgoyne
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  Richard Crenna

  Captain Collins
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  Candice Bergen

  Shirley Eckert
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  Mako

  Po-han
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  Larry Gates

  Jameson
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  Charles Robinson

  Ensign Bordelles
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  Simon Oakland

  Stawski
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  Ford Rainey

  Harris
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  Joe Turkel

  Bronson