55 Days at Peking A handful of men and women held out against the frenzied hordes of bloodthirsty fanatics! Release date: 1963-05-06 Genres: History, War, Drama Actors: Paul Lukas, Joseph Fürst, Alfred Lynch, Burt Kwouk, John Moulder-Brown, Charlton Heston, Alfredo Mayo, Harry Andrews, Milton Reid, David Niven, George Wang, Jerome Thor, Eric Pohlmann, Mervyn Johns, Kurt Kasznar, Carlos Casaravilla, Flora Robson, Michael Chow, Robert Rietti, John Ireland, Robert Helpmann, Leo Genn, Jacques Sernas, Philippe Leroy, Ava Gardner, Conchita Montes, Mitchell Kowall, Andrea Esterhazy, Paul Naschy, Walter Gotell, Chow Siu-Loi, Lucille Soong, Martin Miller, Aram Stephan, Fernando Sancho, Massimo Serato, Geoffrey Bayldon, Lynne Sue Moon, Robert Urquhart, José Nieto, Mike Steen, Félix Dafauce, Elizabeth Sellars, Lucy Appleby, R.S.M. Brittain Direction: Nicholas Ray, Jūzō Itami, Guillermo Vera Budget: $17,000,000Revenue: $10,000,000 Runtime: 2 h. 34 min. Score: 7.0/10 Votes: 169 Countries: United States of America Companies: Samuel Bronston Productions, Allied Artists Pictures 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.
