Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 196 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR China
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- china
- missionary
- u.s. navy
- chinese
- battle
- gunboat
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Steve McQueen
Jake Holman
Richard Attenborough
Frenchy Burgoyne
Richard Crenna
Captain Collins
Candice Bergen
Shirley Eckert
- Mako — Po-han
- Larry Gates — Jameson
- Charles Robinson — Ensign Bordelles
- Simon Oakland — Stawski
- Ford Rainey — Harris
- Joe Turkel — Bronson
- Gavin MacLeod — Crosley
- Joe Di Reda — Shanahan
- Richard Loo — Major Chin
- Barney Phillips — Franks
- James Hong — Victor Shu
- Directed
- Robert Wise
- Written
- Robert Anderson
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 284 ratings
- Studio
- Robert Wise Productions, Solar Productions, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
