55 Days at Peking
- Released on
History, War, Drama
•- Runtime
- 154 mins
(162 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Charlton Heston
- Ava Gardner
- David Niven
- Flora Robson
- John Ireland
- Harry Andrews
- Leo Genn
- Robert Helpmann
- Kurt Kasznar
- Philippe Leroy
- Paul Lukas
- Elizabeth Sellars
- Massimo Serato
- Jacques Sernas
- Jerome Thor
- Geoffrey Bayldon
- Joseph Fürst
- Walter Gotell
- Jūzō Itami
- Mervyn Johns
- Alfredo Mayo
- Martin Miller
- Conchita Montes
- José Nieto
- Eric Pohlmann
- Aram Stephan
- Robert Urquhart
- Lynne Sue Moon
- Burt Kwouk
- Mike Steen
- Lucy Appleby
- Félix Dafauce
- Andrea Esterhazy
- Carlos Casaravilla
- R.S.M. Brittain
- Michael Chow
- Chow Siu-Loi
- Mitchell Kowall
- Paul Naschy
- Fernando Sancho
- Lucille Soong
- Robert Rietti
- Milton Reid
- Nicholas Ray
- Alfred Lynch
- John Moulder-Brown
- Guillermo Vera
- George Wang
Director
- Nicholas Ray
Producers
- Samuel Bronston
- Michał Waszyński
- Alan Brown
Screenwriter
- Philip Yordan
- Bernard Gordon
