The Sand Pebbles [La Canonnière du Yang-Tse] 1966
DVDrip | XviD-1195 | mp3@192 | 688x288 | 2 Audio Tracks: English_1 French_2 | Sub: English, French, Italian, Greek, Dutch idx+sub | DVD Cover & Sticker | 2h55 | 2.0 Gb
Drama, War | USA 20 Dec 1966 | Director Robert WISE
In 1926, Machinist's Mate 1st Class Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) transfers from the Asiatic Fleet flagship to the Yangtze River Patrol gunboat USS San Pablo. (The ship is nicknamed the "Sand Pebble" and its sailors refer to themselves as "Sand Pebbles.") Life aboard a gunboat is very different. It has a labor system – condoned by officers – wherein coolies (Chinese manual laborers) do the work, leaving the sailors free for combat drills and idle bickering. The coolie laborers' "rice bowl" (source of income) is derived from doing the work that the sailors would normally do...