Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS 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.

• DirectorRobert Wise
• Release20 December 1966
• Genre
  Drama / War
• Duration3h 16m
• Budget$12,000,000
• Revenue$20,000,000
• Rate
  

  7.203
  254 reviews
• Productions

  Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox