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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.
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.
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.
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...
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The Sandpebbles were an American R&B vocal group composed of Calvin White, Andrea Bolden, and Lonzine Wright. [1] . They recorded for Calla Records, and had one major pop hit in the U.S., "Love Power", which hit #14 on the Billboard Black Singles chart in 1967 and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year. [2] .
Novel. Robert Anderson. Screenplay. 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.
The Sand Pebbles - YouTube. Buy or rent. PG-13. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 451. China, 1926. The country is torn by revolution and exploited by foreigners.
