The Sand Pebbles is a movie directed by Robert Wise in 1966 and based on the book of the same name by Richard McKenna, first published in 1962. The movie features Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna, Emmanuelle Arsan, Simon Oakland, and others.
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Storyline
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.
Movie vs Book
Year
1966
Minutes
182
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Sand Pebbles
Director: Robert Wise
Country: USA
Year: 1966
Length: 3h2m
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Year
1962
Pages
602
Book Rate
8.48
S: Goodreads
Book
The Sand Pebbles
Author: Richard McKenna
Country: USA
First published in: 1962
Length: 602 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.”
GIA COPPOLA (Filmmaker)
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