The Sand Pebbles (1966)

The Sand Pebbles (1966) - Drama Movies 196 minutes. La canonnière du Yang-Tsé, O Canhoneiro do Yang-Tsé, Ziarnka piasku, Песъчинки. 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. china, missionary, u.s. navy, chinese, battle, gunboat