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The Sand Pebbles (1966) [PG-13]

Release Date:
December 20, 1966

Original Title:
The Sand Pebbles

Alternate Titles:
La canonnière du Yang-Tsé
O Canhoneiro do Yang-Tsé
Ziarnka piasku
Песъчинки

Genres:
Drama | War

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Robert Wise Productions
Solar Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  DK: 11  FR: U  GB: 12  IE: 15  JP: G  NL: AL|12  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 196

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.

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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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Production

Assistant Director:
Ridgeway Callow

Associate Producer:
Charles H. Maguire

Conductor:
Lionel Newman

Costume Design:
Renié

Director:
Robert Wise

Director of Photography:
Joseph MacDonald

Editor:
William Reynolds

Executive Producer:
Steve McQueen

Hairstylist:
Margaret Donovan

Makeup Artist:
William Turner
Del Acevedo
Ben Nye

Novel:
Richard McKenna

Orchestrator:
David Tamkin

Original Music Composer:
Jerry Goldsmith

Producer:
Robert Wise

Production Design:
Boris Leven

Screenplay:
Robert Anderson

Second Unit Director:
Charles H. Maguire

Set Decoration:
Walter M. Scott
William Kiernan
John Sturtevant

Sound:
Bernard Freericks
Douglas O. Williams
Murray Spivack

Special Effects:
Gerald Endler

Stunt Double:
Loren Janes

Stunts:
Glenn R. Wilder
Gil Perkins
Bill Saito
Larry Duran

Unit Production Manager:
Saul Wurtzel

Wardrobe Master:
Ed Wynigear

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