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Production countries: United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR China
Origin countries: United States
Language: English
Spoken: Mandarin, English
Production: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Budget: $12,000,000
Revenue: $20,000,000

Production countries: United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR China
Origin countries: United States
Language: English
Spoken: Mandarin, English
Production: Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
Budget: $12,000,000
Revenue: $20,000,000

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The Sand Pebbles PG-13

Released Drama War

20 Dec, 1966 (US) 3h 16min

The Sand Pebbles PG-13

Released Drama War

20 Dec, 1966 (US) 3h 16min

Directed by Robert Wise

This is the heroic story of the men on the U.S.S. San Pablo who disturbed the sleeping dragon of savage China as the threatened world watched in breathless terror.

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... see more

Directed by Robert Wise