This is the heroic story of the men on the U.S.S. San Pablo who disturbed the sleeping dragon of savage China as the threatened world watched in breathless terror.
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.
The Cincinnati Kid
Drama
7.0
Sands of Iwo Jima
War, Drama
6.4
Atlantic Wall
Adventure, Comedy, War
6.2
Fata Morgana
Documentary
6.6
The Bank Shot
Comedy, Crime
5.4
Mutiny on the Bounty
Adventure, Drama, History
7.4
The Cowboys
Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
7.1
The Professionals
Western, Adventure, Action
7.1
Last Days
Drama
5.5
The Getaway
Action, Crime, Thriller
7.1
Take the Money and Run
Comedy, Crime
7.1
East of Eden
Drama
7.5
The Towering Inferno
Action, Drama, Thriller
7.0
Appaloosa
Drama, Western, Crime
6.6
The Great Escape
Adventure, Drama, War
7.9
The Wild Bunch
Western
7.6
The Thin Red Line
Drama, History, War
7.5
Patton
War, Drama, History
7.5
Frequency
Science Fiction, Thriller
7.3
Mean Girls 2
Comedy
5.3
Tora! Tora! Tora!
War, History, Drama
7.2
Farewell My Concubine
Drama
7.9
Midway
Action, Drama, History, War
6.6
Blind Shaft
Drama, Crime
7.5
Lust, Caution
Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
7.3
Cabiria
Drama, History
7.2
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Drama
6.2
High Noon
Western, Drama
7.7
Seven Samurai
Action, Drama
8.5
Mississippi Burning
Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
7.7
Shanghai Express
Drama, Romance, War, Crime, History
6.9
A Few Good Men
Drama
7.5
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Drama, Romance
6.9
The Man Who Would Be King
Adventure, Drama
7.5
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Drama
6.8
LSD: Trip to Where?
Drama
9.0
Still Life
Drama, Romance
7.2
Cape of the North
Drama, Romance
0.0
M. Butterfly
Romance, Drama
6.6
The Warrior
History, Drama, Action, War
7.0