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55 Days at Peking (1963)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 154 minutes
Actors
Charlton Heston | Ava Gardner | David Niven | Flora Robson | John Ireland | Harry Andrews | Leo Genn | Robert Helpmann | Kurt Kasznar | Philippe Leroy | Paul Lukas | Elizabeth Sellars | Massimo Serato | Jacques Sernas | Jerome Thor | Geoffrey Bayldon | Joseph Fürst | Walter Gotell | Juzo Itami | Mervyn Johns | Alfredo Mayo | Martin Miller | Conchita Montes | José Nieto | Eric Pohlmann | Aram Stephan | Robert Urquhart | Lynne Sue Moon | Burt Kwouk | Mike Steen | Lucy Appleby | Félix Dafauce | Andrea Esterhazy | Carlos Casaravilla | R.S.M. Brittain | Michael Chow | Chow Siu-Loi | Mitchell Kowall | Paul Naschy | Fernando Sancho | Lucille Soong | Robert Rietti | Milton Reid | Nicholas Ray | Alfred Lynch | John Moulder-Brown | Guillermo Vera | George Wang