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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.
1 Video. 99+ Photos. Adventure Drama Romance. In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China. Director. Robert Wise. Writers. Richard McKenna. Robert Anderson. Stars. Steve McQueen. Richard Attenborough. Richard Crenna. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.99. search Amazon.
The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and in January 1963 it was published by Harper & Row.
A naval engineer stationed in 1926 China defies local authorities to rescue a group of missionaries. Cast & Crew. Read More. Robert Wise. Director. Steve McQueen. Jake Holman. Richard Attenborough. Frenchy Burgoyne. Richard Crenna. Captain Collins. Candice Bergen. Shirley Eckert. Marayat Andriane. Maily. Photos & Videos. View All. Film Details.
Rated: B • Dec 26, 2009. 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 ...
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The Sand Pebbles opens in 1926 as China is gripped by an open rebellion against foreign interventionism. Jake Holman (played by McQueen) is a rebellious young U.S. Navy machinist who is assigned to the USS San Pablo, a gunboat that patrols China’s Yangtze River but is ordered to remain neutral during the conflict.
Synopsis. 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.
