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 Sand Pebbles was released in 1966 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 128 reviews, giving The Sand Pebbles (1966) an average rating of 78%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 84%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 77%.
With a score of 78%, The Sand Pebbles is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1966, which stands at 59%.
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