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Released in 1966 and running a bit long at 182 minutes,this is a epic that Hollywood doesn't make anymore.Perhaps foreshadowing the storm clouds that were Vietnam on the horizon,its a sprawling tale of China and gunboat democracy set against a lone persons attempt to come to grips with a world he couldn't imagine existed. In the process he finds a new life and love and then he dies.Simple but sadly true for 50 thousand young americans just like him in the near future.Perhaps the movie should be shown more often.I took 1 star off for the length and dated feel of the film,otherwise perfect.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below.
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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. Written by Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>
http://www.videodetective.com/movies/the-sand-pebbles/984707
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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. Written by Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>
http://www.videodetective.com/movies/the-sand-pebbles/984707
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