The Sand Pebbles

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.

Cast for The Sand Pebbles...

Steve McQueen
Jake Holman
Richard Attenborough
Frenchy Burgoyne
Richard Crenna
Captain Collins
Candice Bergen
Shirley Eckert
Mako
Po-han
Charles Robinson
Ensign Bordelles
Joe Turkel
Bronson
Joe Di Reda
Shanahan
Richard Loo
Major Chin
James Hong
Victor Shu
Gus Trikonis
Restorff
Paul Chun
Cho-jen
Beulah Quo
Mama Chunk
Stephen Jahn
Haythorn
Ted Fish
Wellbeck
Robert Kelly-Schleyer
Bosun's Mate (uncredited)