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Instead, Heston approved a role in 55 Days at Peking (see entry), which also went on to film in Spain and was readied for release in 1963. Meanwhile, with Yordan’s draft completed, Mann began an international search for other big-name actors to fill out the cast. DV items throughout the summer and ...
Feb 25, 2020 · The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan, Bernard Gordon, Ben Barzman and Robert Hamer, while the music score was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin; the theme song "So Little Time" was composed by Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. 55 Days in Peking is a dramatization of the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now known ...
55 DAYS AT PEKING. Directed by. Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton. United States, 1963. ... Philip Yordan Screenplay. Articles from the Notebook. The Peking Order.
Sep 10, 2012 · The result, Ray's farewell to Hollywood, is admittedly a broken-backed movie - producer Samuel Bronston re-cut it - but one full of delicious moments as Ray's camera cranes and swoops around his ...
Feb 10, 2007 · Bronston tended to use the same people frequently. “55 Days at Peking” was directed by Nicholas Ray, a director known more for iconoclastic films that tended to sympathize with outsiders (“Rebel Without a Cause”), film noir (‘In a Lonely Place”) and films that turned genre conventions on their head like the gun-toting Joan Crawford ...
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55 Days at Peking is directed by Nicholas Ray and Andrew Marton and collectively written by Philip Yordan, Bernard Gordon, Robert Hamer and Ben Barzman. It stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven and Flora Robson. Music is scored by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography is by Jack Hildyard. 1900, Peking, China.
Another Ray film, 55 Days at Peking (1962), was one of several films on which the blacklisted writer Bernard Gordon had a pseudonymous credit. He described Yordan as "not a great writer, but he ...
