Fresh
Jack Hildyard's photography is excellent, particularly in getting on the big screen the savage attack scenes which take up the major part of the picture.
Variety Staff, Variety
55 Days at Peking
A handful of men and women held out against the frenzied hordes of bloodthirsty fanatics!
1963 · 2h 34m · Unrated
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Nicholas Ray
,
Guy Green
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.
Director and cast
- Nicholas Ray Director
- Guy Green Director
- Charlton Heston as Maj. Matt Lewis
- Ava Gardner as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
- David Niven as Sir Arthur Robertson
- Flora Robson as Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi
- John Ireland as Sgt. Harry
- Harry Andrews as Father de Bearn
- Leo Genn as Gen. Jung-Lu
- Robert Helpmann as Prince Tuan
- Kurt Kasznar as Baron Sergei Ivanoff
- Philippe Leroy as Julliard
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Nicholas Ray's last commercial film and second blockbuster for Samuel Bronston (after King of Kings) effectively ended his career as a Hollywood director, and the unwieldiness of this spectacular... helps in part to explain why.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A magnificent failure.
Time Out
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