The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Actors:
Joe Turkel (actor),
Walter Reed (actor),
Ford Rainey (actor),
Richard Loo (actor),
Mako (actor),
Gil Perkins (actor),
Barney Phillips (actor),
Richard Attenborough (actor),
James Hong (actor),
Paul Chun (actor),
Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor),
Gavin MacLeod (actor),
Steve McQueen (actor),
Ben Wright (actor),
Richard Crenna (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: 1920s, action-hero, ambush, american-soldier, anti-hero, anti-war, asian, axe, bar-brawl, bar-fight
Genres:
Adventure,
Drama,
Romance,
War,
Taglines: THE STORY OF MEN...men who disturbed the sleeping dragon of China as the world watched in terror! 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
Quotes:
Jake Holman: I was home. What happened? What the hell happened?
[Jake Holman (Machinist Mate 1st Class ) teaching Po-han (Engine Room coolie) the engine room]::Jake Holman: Valve.::Po-han: Wow.::Jake Holman: Valve.::Po-han: Wow. [points to valve, more emphatically] Wow.::Jake Holman: Yeah, okay... wow. [pointing to another valve] Main steam stop valve.::Po-han: Main steam stop wow.
Captain Collins: Holman, I'll have you shot as a mutineer!::Jake Holman: Well shoot something!
Frenchy Burgoyne: [exchanging marriage vows; slowly and with feeling] We're mixing our lives together, Maily, and we'll never be able to unmix them again, and we'll never want to. I take you for what you are, and all that you are, and mix you with all of me, and I don't hold back nothing. When you're cold, and hungry, and afraid, so am I. I'm going to stay with you all that I can, take the best care of you that I can, and love you 'til I die.::Maily: I will always love you and honor you and serve you, and stay as near to you as I can, and do everything for you, and live for you. I won't have *any* life except our life together. I will just love you, Frenchy, all of me, loving you forever.
Captain Collins: Pray for an early spring... or permission to open fire.
Jake Holman: Hello, Engine; I'm Jake Holman.
Jake Holman: [Holman enters the engine room after boarding the San Pablo. He looks around the room, smiles and places his hand on the machinery] Hello, Engine; I'm Jake Holman.
Po-han: Dead stim!
Jake Holman: [Last Lines] I was home. What happened? What the hell happened?