• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1966-12-20
  • Runtime196 minutes
  • TaglineThis 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.
  • Revenue20,000,000$
  • GenreDrama, War
  • Production
    CompaniesRobert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
  • Budget12,000,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Steve McQueen

Richard Attenborough

Richard Crenna

Candice Bergen

Mako

Larry Gates

Charles Robinson

Simon Oakland

Ford Rainey

Joe Turkel

Gavin MacLeod

Richard Loo

Barney Phillips

James Hong

Emmanuelle Arsan

James Jeter

Paul Chun Pui

Beulah Quo

Loren Janes

Glenn R. Wilder