55 Days at Peking

Year: 1963

Country: USA

Tagline: A handful of men and women held out against the frenzied hordes of bloodthirsty fanatics!

Plot: 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.This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900 when U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.

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