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.
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Writing | Robert Anderson | Screenplay |
Directing | Robert Wise | Director |
Writing | Richard McKenna | Novel |
Art | William Kiernan | Set Decoration |
Editing | William Reynolds | Editor |
Art | Boris Leven | Production Design |
Art | John Sturtevant | Set Decoration |
Costume & Make-Up | Renié | Costume Design |
Art | Walter M. Scott | Set Decoration |
Camera | Joseph MacDonald | Director of Photography |
Production | Robert Wise | Producer |
Production | Charles H. Maguire | Associate Producer |
Sound | Jerry Goldsmith | Original Music Composer |
Crew | Gerald Endler | Special Effects |
Costume & Make-Up | Del Acevedo | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Margaret Donovan | Hairstylist |
Costume & Make-Up | Ben Nye | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | William Turner | Makeup Artist |
Production | Saul Wurtzel | Unit Production Manager |
Directing | Ridgeway Callow | Assistant Director |
Directing | Charles H. Maguire | Second Unit Director |
Sound | Bernard Freericks | Sound |
Sound | Murray Spivack | Sound |
Sound | Douglas O. Williams | Sound |
Costume & Make-Up | Ed Wynigear | Wardrobe Master |
Sound | David Tamkin | Orchestrator |
Sound | Lionel Newman | Conductor |
Crew | Loren Janes | Stunt Double |
Crew | Glenn R. Wilder | Stunts |
Crew | Larry Duran | Stunts |
Crew | Gil Perkins | Stunts |
Crew | Bill Saito | Stunts |
Production | Steve McQueen | Executive Producer |