The Sand Pebbles(Movie, 1966)

Name: The Sand Pebbles
Genre: Adventure, War
Released: 1966
Duration: T03:2:00
Rating: 3.6

PG-13

| 3h 2min | Genres: Adventure, War

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 97 votes)

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. The film stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna and Candice Bergen, and features Mako, Simon Oakland, Larry Gates and Marayat Andriane in supporting roles. Robert Anderson adapted the screenplay from the 1962 novel of the same name by Richard McKenna. The Sand Pebbles was a critical and commercial success during its general release. It became the fourth highe... ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Sand Pebbles

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Score nominated for: Academy Award for Best Sound

About 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Taiwan

Plays in: China

Made by: Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox, Robert Wise Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Translated into 20 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/20/1966

Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Emmanuelle Arsan, Larry Gates, Barney Phillips, Ford Rainey, Gavin MacLeod, James Hong, Joe Turkel, Richard Loo, Simon Oakland, Gus Trikonis, Larry Duran, Ben Wright, Frank Coghlan, Jr., Walter Reed, Paul Chun

Director: Robert Wise

Producer: Robert Wise

Screenwriter: Robert Anderson

Film Editor: William H. Reynolds

Director of Photography: Joseph MacDonald

Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Песъчинки"

"O Canhoneiro do Yang-Tsé"

"La canonnière du Yang-Tsé"

"Ziarnka piasku"

Keywords: gunboat, chinese, missionary, u.s. navy, battle, china

Budget: 12,000,000 USD

Revenue: 20,000,000 USD (= 167%)

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The Sand Pebbles(Movie, 1966)

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