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Running time. 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.
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For example, Gordon said, in 1963 when he and Yordan were co-screenwriters for “55 Days at Peking,” which was produced by Samuel Bronston and starred Charlton Heston and David Niven, the...
55 Days at Peking (1963) - full transcript. Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
But Nicholas Ray, director; his associate, Andrew Marton; Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, the script writers, and an energetic cast have made these "55 Days" rousing, sometimes...
The screenplay for 55 Days at Peking came from Bernard Gordon, whose credits included such unhistorical fare as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) and The Day of the Triffids (1962), and the remarkable Philip Yordan, a victim of the Hollywood blacklist who had penned such minor classics as The Man from Laramie (1955) and The Harder They Fall ...
Language: English. SYNOPSIS. In June, 1900, delegations in Peking representing 11 countries are threatened by the fanatical Boxers, a band of terrorists determined to drive the "foreign devils" out of China. Encouraged by Dowager Empress Tzü Hsi and her adviser, Prince Tuan, the Boxers move into the city and murder the German ambassador.
