The Sand Pebbles Word Search Puzzle – Search Characters, Actors and Actresses. Word Search Puzzle Solver. 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. Find out the following actor, actress, character names, and other movie-related words hidden in this word search puzzle based on this movie.. This includes identifying and searching for words that are related to : Mako, Ted Fish, Schleyer, Paul Chun, Tommy Lee, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Joe Turkel, Larry Gates, James Jeter, Ford Rainey, Loren Janes, Richard Loo, Joe Di Reda, Robert Kelly .