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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.
- $12.1 million
- December 20, 1966
- Robert Wise
- Jerry Goldsmith
A U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China in 1926. The film stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, and Candice Bergen, and was nominated for eight Oscars.
- Robert Wise
- 141
- 3 min
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.
- Richard McKenna
- 597
- 1963
- January 2, 1963
In 1926, as strong feelings of nationalism are sweeping through China and the followers of Chiang Kai-shek, as well as the war lords and communists, are demanding that all foreigners leave Chinese soil, the U. S. gunboat San Pablo is patroling the Yangtze River.
- Robert Wise, Ridgeway Callow, Charles Maguire
- Steve Mcqueen
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...
- (19)
- Robert Wise
- PG-13
- Steve Mcqueen
A U.S. Naval engineer gets involved in a civil war and a love triangle on a gunboat in China in 1926. Read the summaries, cast and crew, trivia, and user reviews of this classic film starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough.
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Find out who starred in the classic war film The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise and based on a novel by Richard McKenna. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and more on IMDb.
