55 Days at Peking
Director: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green
Genre: War film, Political drama, Period piece, Action, Adventure, Epic, Adventure Drama, Costume Adventure, Historical Epic, Historical Film, Drama
Year: 1963
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: John Ireland, Charlton Heston, Flora Robson, David Niven, Ava Gardner, Robert Helpmann, Leo Genn, Paul Lukas, Kurt Kasznar, Massimo Serato, Elizabeth Sellars, Harry Andrews, Philippe Leroy, Jacques Sernas, Jerome Thor
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton (credited as the second unit director), and Guy Green (uncredited). The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan, Bernard Gordon, Ben Barzman, and Robert Hamer, the music score was written by Dimitri Tiomkin, and the cinematographer was Jack Hildyard.
In addition to directing, Nicholas Ray plays the minor role of the head of the American diplomatic mission in China. This film is also the first known appearance of future martial arts film star Yuen Siu Tien. The Japanese film director Juzo Itami, credited in the film as "Ichizo Itami", appears as Colonel Goro Shiba.
55 Days at Peking is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 China. Fed up by foreign encroachment, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi uses the Boxer secret societies to attack the foreigners within China, culminating in the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now Beijing). The film concentrates on the
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