55 Days at Peking
1963 historical war film directed by Nicholas Ray
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Summary
55 Days at Peking is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,337 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Director: Nicholas Ray[3], Guy Green[4], Andrew Marton[5]
- Screenwriter: Robert Hamer[6], Philip Yordan[7], Ben Barzman[8], Bernard Gordon[9]
- Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin[10]
- Genre: drama film[11], war film[12]
- Cast member: Charlton Heston[13], Ava Gardner[14], David Niven[15], Flora Robson[16], John Ireland[17], Leo Genn[18], Robert Helpmann[19], Kurt Kasznar[20], Paul Lukas[21], Harry Andrews[22], Philippe Leroy[23], Massimo Serato[24], Jacques Sernas[25], Fernando Sancho[26]
- Producer: Samuel Bronston[27]
- Production company: Samuel Bronston Productions[28]
- Director of photography: Jack Hildyard[29], Manuel Berenguer[30]
- Original language of film or TV show: English[31]
- Commons category: 55 Days at Peking[32]
- Distribution format: video on demand[33]
- Review score: 5.4/10[34], 57%[35]
- Color: color[36]
- Country of origin: United States[37]
- Publication date: January 1, 1963[38]
- Characters: John Twiggs Myers[39], Claude Maxwell MacDonald[40], Empress Dowager Cixi[41], Ronglu[42], Zaiyi[43], Shiba Gorō[44], Michail Nikolajewitsch de Giers[45], Bernardo de Cólogan y Cólogan[46], Giuseppe Salvago Raggi[47]
Why It Matters
55 Days at Peking has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]