55 Days at Peking
"A handful of men and women held out against the frenzied hordes of bloodthirsty fanatics!"
1963-05-06
6.958
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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.
Production Design
Veniero Colasanti
Director
Nicholas Ray
Original Music Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin
Casting
Maude Spector
Editor
Robert Lawrence
Screenplay
Bernard Gordon
epic siege beijing, china 1900s boxer rebellion
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$10,000,000Budget
$17,000,000Countries
- United States of America
Companies
- Samuel Bronston Productions
- Allied Artists Pictures
