Steve McQueen	Jake Holman
Richard Attenborough	Frenchy Burgoyne
Richard Crenna	Captain Collins
Candice Bergen	Shirley Eckert
Larry Gates	Jameson
Mako 1933	Po-han
Simon Oakland	Stawski
Charles Robinson	Ensign Bordelles
Emmanuelle Arsan	Maily
Ford Rainey	Harris

Director	Robert Wise
Producer	Robert Wise Charles H. Maguire
Writer	Richard McKenna Robert Anderson

Machinist's Mate 1st class Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) arrives on board the fictional USS San Pablo, a gunboat smaller than but similar to the real-life USS Panay. San Pablo is tasked to protect Americans and patrol the Yangtze River in 1920s China. Holman is placed in charge of the gunboat’s engine room and soon runs afoul of the “coolie” labor system used aboard where local Chinese do all the routine chores thus relieving American sailors who (barely) supervise. Holman becomes alarmed when he sees that his engine room is operated by Chinese coolies who perform their tasks by rote, without understanding the machine they operate. He begins to train Po-Han (Mako Iwamatsu) to a better standard, treating him more as a friend and protégé, which earns him the ire of the rest of the crew. Holman’s few friends include Frenchy (Richard Attenborough) a Senior Petty Officer and missionary school teacher Shirley Eckert (Candice Bergen). Both of them will be in need of rescuing later in the film as the many dangers of 1920s China unfold.

Edition Details Audience Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance) Country USA Language English Distributor 20th Century Fox Barcode 024543452096 Region Region 1 Release Date 6/3/2008 Packaging Keep Case Screen Ratio Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) Subtitles English; Spanish; Cantonese; English (Closed Captioned); Korean Audio Tracks DTS 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Mono [French] Dolby Digital Mono [Spanish] DTS [English] Dolby Digital 4.0 [English] Layers Single Side, Dual Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features - Audio Commentary with Director Robert Wise and Actors Candice Bergen, Mako- Isolated Score Track with Commentary by Music Producer Nick Redman, Film Music Historian Jon Burlingame, and Lem Dobbs- Trivia Track- Road Show Version Scenes- The Making of The Sand Pebbles Documentary- Steve McQueen Remembered Featurette- Robert Wise Remembered Featurette- China 1926 Remembered Featurette- A Ship Called San Pablo - Narrated by Richard Attenborough- Radio Spot- Original Theatrical Trailer

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