55 Days at Peking 1963

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 154 min

genre: historical

theme: epic

director: Andrew Marton

Score: 5 / 10

55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now known as Beijing) during the Boxer Uprising, which took place in China in the summer of 1900. It was produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, and with uncredited contributions from Robert Hamer, Julian Halevy, and Ben Barzman. Noel Gerson wrote a screenplay novelization in 1963 under the pseudonym "Samuel Edwards".

Plot

The film is set during the Battle of Peking (1900) (modern day Beijing).

Cast

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author	Ben Barzman Bernard Gordon Philip Yordan Robert Hamer
contentLocation	Beijing
director	Andrew Marton Guy Green Nicholas Ray
editor	Robert Lawrence
events	Battle of Peking Boxer Rebellion Siege of the International Legations
genre	adventure drama historical
keywords	anti-western anti-western sentiment beijing legation quarter boxer british-led relief force china hand concessions in china dowager empress cixi eight-nation alliance empress dowager cixi follow force foreshadow hear imperial john twiggs myers kill legations district love interest march medical supplies military of the qing dynasty peking plan qing dynasty run russian aristocracy russian aristocrat seymour expedition territorial concessions by those colonial powers throne room united states marine corps us marine us military west wound yìhéquán
musicBy	Dimitri Tiomkin
nomination	Academy Award for Best Original Score
producer	Samuel Bronston
productionCompany	Samuel Bronston Productions
publisher	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
recordedAt	Las Rozas de Madrid
theme	epic war