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55 Days at Peking - subtitles like script. 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.
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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
55 DAYS AT PEKING; original screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon; directed by Nicholas Ray with second unit directed by Andrew Marton; produced by Samuel Bronston and...
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. Directors. Nicholas Ray. Guy Green. Andrew Marton. Writers. Robert Hamer. Philip Yordan. Bernard Gordon. Stars. Charlton Heston.
He continued to work regularly for Bronston: 55 Days at Peking (1963), directed by Ray and Guy Green, with Yordan producing, contributing ideas and being a script front for Gordon; The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), directed by Mann; and Circus World (1964), directed by Henry Hathaway (mostly written by Gordon).
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- 1946–1994
- American
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 ...
