55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing (then still Peking, in English) 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
Starvation, widespread in China, is affecting more than 100 million peasants by the summer of 1900. Approximately a thousand foreigners from various western industrialized countries are surrounded and trapped in Beijing's legations. The Boxers oppose the westerners and the Christian religion and are planning to drive them out.
Cast
- Alfred Lynch
- Alfredo Mayo
- Aram Stephan
- Ava Gardner
- Burt Kwouk
- Carlos Casaravilla
- Charlton Heston
- David Niven
- Elizabeth Sellars
- Eric Pohlmann
- Félix Dafauce
- Fernando Sancho
- Flora Robson
- Geoffrey Bayldon
- George Wang
- Harry Andrews
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- Jacques Sernas
- Jean-Claude Michel
- Jerome Thor
- John Ireland
- John Moulder-Brown
- José Nieto
- Joseph Furst
- Jūzō Itami
- Kurt Kasznar
- Leo Genn
- Lucille Soong
- Lynne Sue Moon
- Martin Miller
- Massimo Serato
- Mervyn Johns
- Michael Chow
- Milton Reid
- Paul Lukas
- Paul Naschy
- Philippe Leroy
- Robert Helpmann
- Robert Riettii
- Robert Urquhart
- Ronald Brittain
- Stephen Young
- Walter Gotell
- Yuen Siu-tien