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DVD Release Date
• R1: May 15, 2001
• R2: 6 May 2002
Budget $12,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for violence and sexual material.
Running Time
2 hours, 59 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Kanonenboot am Yangtse-Kiang (1967)
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Genre: Romance, War, Drama, Political, Epic, Suspense, Prostitution, Escape, Love
Tagline: 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
Plot: One of the most exciting and heart-wrenching epics ever made, THE SAND PEBBLES is a masterpiece of storytelling, with exceptional performances by a stellar cast. The complex tale begins simply enough in 1926 China, where a group of American soldiers are patrolling the Yangtze River on a gunboat called the San Pablo. The crew members, who call themselves Sand Pebbles, includes Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a dispassionate but capable navy machinist, and his only friend, Frenchy (Richard Attenborough), a sailor in love with an English-educated Chinese girl, Maily (Marayat Andriane), who has been sold into prostitution. Strong feelings of nationalism have been sweeping through China, however, and when Chiang Kai-shek moves against the feudal warlords, the United States decides to treat the upheaval as a civil war, and the San Pablo is ordered to confine its function to protection of American civilians in the area. Included among them are Mr. Jameson (Larry Gates), a missionary, and Shirley Eckert (Candice Bergen), a schoolteacher with whom Jake falls in love. Soon Jake finds himself in the middle of an international military crisis when his native assistant, Po-han (Mako), is brutally tortured in an attempt to draw the San Pablo's fire, and the boat’s inexperienced and prideful
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Robert Wise
The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
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| Robert Anderson
The Nun's Story, Tea and Sympathy, I Never Sang for My Father |
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First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Hot Shots! Part Deux |
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Pearl Harbor, Conan the Barbarian, Seven Years in Tibet | Larry Gates
In the Heat of the Night, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
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