

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.

Steve McQueen

Richard Attenborough

Richard Crenna

Candice Bergen

Mako

Larry Gates

Charles Robinson

Simon Oakland

Ford Rainey

Joe Turkel

Gavin MacLeod

Joe Di Reda

Richard Loo

Barney Phillips

James Hong

Gus Trikonis

Emmanuelle Arsan

Shepherd Sanders

James Jeter

Tom Middleton

Paul Chun Pui

Tommy Lee

Beulah Quo

Stephen Jahn

Alan Hopkins

Stephen Ferry

Ted Fish

Loren Janes

Glenn R. Wilder

Robert Kelly-Schleyer

Robert Emhardt

Walter Reed