55 Days at Peking
Directed by Nicholas Ray
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.
- Released
- 6 May 1963
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Also known as
- Fifty Five Days at Peking, Les 55 Jours de Pékin
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $17.0M
- Screenplay
- Bernard Gordon, Philip Yordan
- Cinematography
- Jack Hildyard
- Music
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Editor
- Robert Lawrence
- Elsewhere
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Cast
Charlton Heston
Maj. Matt Lewis
Ava Gardner
Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
David Niven
Sir Arthur Robertson
Flora Robson
Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi
John Ireland
Sgt. Harry
Harry Andrews
Father de Bearn
Leo Genn
Gen. Jung-Lu
Robert Helpmann
Prince Tuan
Kurt Kasznar
Baron Sergei Ivanoff
Philippe Leroy
Julliard
Paul Lukas
Dr. Steinfeldt
Elizabeth Sellars
Lady Sarah Robertson
