"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."
The Sand Pebbles
PG-13 3 hr 16 minDec 20th, 1966War, Drama

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Released December 20th, 1966, 'The Sand Pebbles' stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 3 hr 16 min, and received a user score of 72 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 234 top users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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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'The Sand Pebbles' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on December 20th, 1966
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting May 15th, 2001 - Buy The Sand Pebbles DVD