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Release Date: 1963

Cast: Jerome Thor, Massimo Serato, Leo Genn, Philippe Leroy, Ava Gardner, Jacques Sernas, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Sellars, David Niven, Kurt Kasznar, Robert Helpmann, Harry Andrews ...MORE

Cast: Jerome Thor, Massimo Serato, Leo Genn, Philippe Leroy, Ava Gardner, Jacques Sernas, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Sellars, David Niven, Kurt Kasznar, Robert Helpmann, Harry Andrews, Flora Robson, Paul Lukas, John Ireland ...LESS

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55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton (credited as the second unit director), and Guy Green (uncredited). The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan, Bernard Gordon, Ben Barzman, and Robert Hamer, the music score was written by Dimitri Tiomkin, and the cinematographer was Jack Hildyard. In addition to directing, Nicholas Ray plays the minor role of the head of the... MORE

55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton (credited as the second unit director), and Guy Green (uncredited). The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan, Bernard Gordon, Ben Barzman, and Robert Hamer, the music score was written by Dimitri Tiomkin, and the cinematographer was Jack Hildyard. In addition to directing, Nicholas Ray plays the minor role of the head of the American diplomatic mission in China. This film is also the first known appearance of future martial arts film star Yuen Siu Tien. The Japanese film director Juzo Itami, credited in the film as "Ichizo Itami", appears as Colonel Goro Shiba. 55 Days at Peking is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 China. Fed up by foreign encroachment, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi uses the Boxer secret societies to attack the foreigners within China, culminating in the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now Beijing). The film concentrates on the LESS