55 Days at Peking
A handful of men and women held out against the frenzied hordes of bloodthirsty fanatics!
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- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- War
- History
Overview
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 6, 1963
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Charlton Heston,Ava Gardner,David Niven,Flora Robson,John Ireland,Harry Andrews,Leo Genn,Robert Helpmann,Kurt Kasznar,Philippe Leroyand 38 more
- Director
- Nicholas Ray
- Writer
- Philip Yordan,Bernard Gordon
- Cinematography
- Jack Hildyard
- Music
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Budget
- $17,000,000
- Revenue
- $10,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0056800