---
title: '55 Days at Peking (1963)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Nicholas Ray'
released: '1963-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 154
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/55-days-at-peking-1963'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056800/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# 55 Days at Peking (1963)

1963 · 154 min · Drama, War · United States


## Synopsis

55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion, which took place in China in the summer of 1900. It was produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, and with uncredited contributions from Robert Hamer, Julian Halevy, and Ben Barzman. Noel Gerson wrote a screenplay novelization in 1963 under the pseudonym "Samuel Edwards".

## Credits

- **Director:** [Nicholas Ray](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-ray), [Andrew Marton](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-marton), [Guy Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-green)
- **Screenplay:** [Philip Yordan](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-yordan), [Robert Hamer](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-hamer), [Ben Barzman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-barzman), [Bernard Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-gordon)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Dimitri Tiomkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-tiomkin)
- **Producer:** [Samuel Bronston](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-bronston)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jack Hildyard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-hildyard), [Manuel Berenguer](https://cinepixo.com/people/manuel-berenguer)
- **Editor:** [Robert Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lawrence)

## Cast

- [Jerome Thor](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerome-thor) as Capt. Andy Marshall
- [Milton Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-reid) as Boxer
- [George Wang](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-wang) as Kaige, Boxer Chief
- [Carlos Casaravilla](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlos-casaravilla) as Nishi Tokujirō
- [Ava Gardner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ava-gardner) as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
- [Robert Riettii](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-riettii)
- [Robert Helpmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-helpmann) as Zaiyi
- [Lucille Soong](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucille-soong) as Concubine
- [Eric Pohlmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-pohlmann) as Clemens von Ketteler
- [Geoffrey Bayldon](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-bayldon) as Smythe
- [Flora Robson](https://cinepixo.com/people/flora-robson) as Empress Dowager Cixi
- [Alfredo Mayo](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfredo-mayo) as Bernardo de Cólogan y Cólogan
- [Burt Kwouk](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-kwouk) as Old Man
- [Ronald Brittain](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-brittain) as Sgt. Britten
- [Charlton Heston](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlton-heston) as John Twiggs Myers

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/55-days-at-peking-1963
Film facts: Wikidata (Q244115); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.