The Sand Pebbles (1966) [Roadshow version]
A Film by Robert Wise
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 03:15:29 | 8,28 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1/4.0 @ 448/320 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
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.