Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Richard McKenna, Robert Anderson
Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
Awards: Nominated for 8 Oscars, 2 wins & 21 nominations total
Duration: 3h 2m
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.
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
