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.
Genre: War, Romance
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako Iwamatsu
Producer: Robert Wise, Robert Wise, Boris Leven, Jerry Goldsmith, William Reynolds
IMDb Score: 7.3/10 by 127 users
Runtime: 182 minutes
Released: 12/20/1966