In 1926 probeert China, na roerige tijden met warlords met een revolutie, uit het dal te komen. Een engineer op een Amerikaan marineschip ontmoet een missielerares op wie hij verliefd wordt, waardoor hij een andere kijk krijgt op de rol van Amerika in China.
Nee, helaas is The Sand Pebbles nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Writing | Robert Anderson | Screenplay |
| Writing | Richard McKenna | Novel |
| Directing | Robert Wise | Director |
| Editing | William Reynolds | Editor |
| Art | Walter M. Scott | Set Decoration |
| Art | William Kiernan | Set Decoration |
| Art | John Sturtevant | Set Decoration |
| Art | Boris Leven | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Renié | Costume Design |
| Camera | Joseph MacDonald | Director of Photography |
| Production | Saul Wurtzel | Unit Production Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | William Turner | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Ridgeway Callow | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Charles H. Maguire | Second Unit Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Del Acevedo | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ben Nye | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Margaret Donovan | Hairstylist |
| Sound | David Tamkin | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Bernard Freericks | Sound |
| Sound | Douglas O. Williams | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ed Wynigear | Wardrobe Master |
| Sound | Lionel Newman | Conductor |
| Sound | Murray Spivack | Sound |
| Production | Robert Wise | Producer |
| Production | Charles H. Maguire | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Jerry Goldsmith | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Loren Janes | Stunt Double |
| Crew | Glenn R. Wilder | Stunts |
| Crew | Gil Perkins | Stunts |
| Crew | Bill Saito | Stunts |
| Crew | Larry Duran | Stunts |
| Production | Steve McQueen | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Gerald Endler | Special Effects |
