55 Days At Peking
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Release date | Turkey |
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Directors | Nicholas Ray |
Andrew Marton | |
Guy Green | |
Based on | Noel Gerson |
Box office | 10 million USD |
Composers | Dimitri Tiomkin |
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ID | 1016678 |
About 55 Days At Peking
This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. When Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi (Flora Robson) orders the Boxers, a group of Chinese secret societies, to massacre foreigners within China, a group of ambassadors, their families and staff hole up in a diplomatic compound. Major Matt Lewis of the United States Marine Corps (Charlton Heston) leads the defense while romancing Russian baroness Natalie Ivanoff (Ava Gardner).