The Sand Pebbles
Dec 20, 1966 | IMDB 7.2
196 min Watch NowDrama, War
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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The Home Song Stories
The King of Masks
Da Song Fei Wen Lu
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Henry V
Electric Shadows
Men Behind the Sun
Forever Young
Eagle Shadow Fist
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M. Butterfly
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IMDB 6 | Feb , 2007
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IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 1995
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IMDB 6.5 | Apr , 2005
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IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1988
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IMDB 5.6 | Jan , 1973
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IMDB 4.7 | Nov , 2014
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IMDB 7 | Sep , 2001
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