Now, before we get into the important info of how you can watch 'The Sand Pebbles' right now, here are some important things to know about the Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox drama flick. The Sand Pebbles starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen has a PG-13 rating, a runtime of about 3 hr 16 min. The release date of the movie is December 20th, 1966. The movie received a user score of 72/100 on TMDb, which is informed by reviews from 265 platform users.
Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "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' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on December 20th, 1966
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting
May 15th, 2001
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