The Sand Pebbles
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.
196 mins
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.
Joe Di Reda
Shanahan
Gus Trikonis
Restorff
Shepherd Sanders
Perna
Tom Middleton
Jennings
Tommy Lee
Chien
Stephen Jahn
Haythorn
Alan Hopkins
Wilsey
Stephen Ferry
Lamb
Ted Fish
Wellbeck
Robert Kelly-Schleyer
Bosun's Mate (uncredited)
Richard McKenna
Novel
William Reynolds
Editor
William Kiernan
Set Decoration
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
John Sturtevant
Set Decoration
Joseph MacDonald
Director of Photography
Del Acevedo
Makeup Artist
Margaret Donovan
Hairstylist
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
William Turner
Makeup Artist
Saul Wurtzel
Unit Production Manager
Ridgeway Callow
Assistant Director
Charles H. Maguire
Second Unit Director
Bernard Freericks
Sound
Murray Spivack
Sound
Douglas O. Williams
Sound
Ed Wynigear
Wardrobe Master
David Tamkin
Orchestrator
Lionel Newman
Conductor
Charles H. Maguire
Associate Producer
Larry Duran
Stunts
Gil Perkins
Stunts
Gerald Endler
Special Effects