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55 Days at Peking was a commercial disaster in the United States. Produced on a then-enormous budget of $10 million, [1] the film's domestic gross was $10 million, [2] earning only $5 million in theatrical rentals. [55] It was the 20th highest-grossing film of 1963. The figures quoted ignore foreign box office receipts where the film was much ...
She made her film debut in 55 Days at Peking (1963), in which she played a girl orphaned during the Boxer Rebellion whom Charlton Heston takes under his wing. [1] She followed this with a role as a Chinese diplomat's niece in William Castle's juvenile espionage film, 13 Frightened Girls (1963). [4]
biographical film about Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang: 1895: 2008: 1895: a Taiwanese film about the Japanese invasion of Taiwan and the Hakka resistance Blade of Fury: 1993: 1898: set during the Hundred Days' Reform: Empire of Silver: 2009: 1899–1901: a Hong Kong film set in the Qing dynasty during the Boxer Rebellion: 55 Days at Peking ...
Title Director Cast Genre Note 13 Frightened Girls: William Castle: Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor: Thriller: Columbia: 4 for Texas: Robert Aldrich: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson
The company produced several epic films, the most notable of which are, John Paul Jones (1959), King of Kings (1961), El Cid (1961), 55 Days at Peking (1963) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). The films were made in Spain in the company's newly created studios in Las Rozas, near Madrid.
Noel Bertram Gerson (1913–1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.
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55 Days at Peking (1963) Cleopatra (1963) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) The Best of Cinerama (1963) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) Cheyenne Autumn (1964) My Fair Lady (1964) (onscreen, over flower montage that becomes main title) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) The Sound of Music (1965) The ...