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The Sand Pebbles
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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

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Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. 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. Written by Martin H. Booda {booda@datasync.com}

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The troubled hero Jake Holman is played by Steve (Lightning) McQueen. It seems for this guy that no good deed goes unpunished... more (warning! contains spoilers)

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