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55 Days at Peking

Name: 55 Days at Peking
Genre: Historia, Bélica, Drama
Released: 1963-05-06
Duration: 154 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland

NR 1963 2 h 34 min

History War Drama

69%

Audience score194 votes on TMDB

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“A handful of men and women held out against the frenzied hordes of bloodthirsty fanatics!”

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Screenplay: Philip Yordan
Screenplay: Bernard Gordon
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Status: Released
Release date: 06/05/1963
Original language: English
Budget: US$ 17 M
Box office: US$ 10 M