55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is an action film released in 1963. It was directed by Andrew Marton and Nicholas Ray. It starred Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven.
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The film is a dramatization of the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 China. Fed up by foreign encroachment, the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi uses the boxer secret societies to attack the foreignors within China,
culminating in the siege on the foreign legations compounds in Beijing. The film title refers to the length of the defense by the colonial powers of the legations district of Beijing (the film concentrates on the defence of the legations from the point of view of the foreign powers).
The film is considered politically incorrect by some as it gives little background on how the colonial powers were subdividing China after some humiliating defeats during the Opium Wars, which were the provocations that drove the Chinese.
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