Charlton Heston
Maj. Matt Lewis
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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.
- $10 million
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- May 29, 1963
- Samuel Bronston
With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson. During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
- Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton
- 66
- 3 min
The foreigners and Chinese Christians in the Legation Quarter survived a 55-day siege by the Qing Army and Boxers. The siege was broken by an international military force, which marched from the coast of China, defeated the Qing Army, and occupied Peking (now known as Beijing ).
- June 20 – August 14, 1900, (55 days)
- Allied victory
Summaries. During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
55 Days At Peking (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Clever Women In a Peking (a.k.a. Beijing) hotel after a long mission, American Marine Major Lewis (Charlton Heston) meets sly Russian baroness Natalie (Ava Gardner) who needs a room, in producer Samuel Bronston's 55 Days At Peking, 1963.
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 ...
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- History, Drama
