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.
as Jake Holman
as Frenchy Burgoyne
as Captain Collins
as Shirley Eckert
as Po-han
as Jameson
as Ensign Bordelles
as Stawski
as Harris
as Bronson
as Crosley
as Shanahan
as Major Chin
as Franks
as Victor Shu
as Restorff
as Maily
as Perna
as Farren
as Jennings
as Cho-jen
as Chien
as Mama Chunk
as Haythorn
as Wilsey
as Lamb
as Wellbeck
as Coleman
as Waldron
as Bosun's Mate (uncredited)
as Officer on San Pablo (uncredited)
as Bidder at Red Kettle Bar (uncredited)
