55 Days at Peking

Name: 55 Days at Peking
Director: Nicholas Ray
Genre: History, War, Drama
Released: 1963-05-06
Duration: 2 h 34 min
Rating: 6.888
Cast: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland

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

1963

2h 34m

History War Drama

Director: Nicholas Ray

Writers: Bernard Gordon, Philip Yordan

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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.