55 Days in Peking NEW Arthouse Blu-Ray Disc Nicholas Ray Ava Gardner

Description: BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brand new, official studio-released Blu-Ray of this great film, imported from Denmark ( Fifty Five Days in Peking ) This is a Blu-Ray Disc, Region A/B/C. This Blu-Ray Disc will play on any standard Blu-Ray player. Blu-Ray Discs will not play on any regular (not Blu-Ray) DVD player. Blu-Ray Discs will not play on any regular (not Blu-Ray) DVD player. This item does not contain pornographic material and may be lawfully sold to and viewed by minors. OUR OTHER PRODUCTS AND POLICIES o If you found this DVD/Blu-Ray to your liking, you will probably find one or more other rare items that we sell to your tastes. 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If these steps don't work, then unfortunately subtitles are not optional. o We now offer FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the world! FILM DETAILS Alternate Title: Fifty Five Days in Peking Screened, competed or awarded at:Oscar Academy Awards Other Film Festival Awards Language Selections:Danish ( Subtitles ) English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ) Finnish ( Subtitles ) Norwegian ( Subtitles ) Swedish ( Subtitles ) Product Origin/Format:Denmark ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C ) Running Time:148 min Aspect Ratio:Widescreen (1.78:1) Special Features:Interactive Menu Scene Access Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:Country: United States ( Region: USA, Canada ) Directed By:Nicholas Ray Written By:Bernard Gordon Philip Yordan Actors:Ava Gardner ..... Baroness Natalie Ivanoff Charlton Heston ..... Maj. Matt Lewis David Niven ..... Sir Arthur Robertson Elizabeth Sellars ..... Lady Sarah Robertson Flora Robson ..... Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi Harry Andrews ..... Father de Bearn Jacques Sernas ..... Maj. Bobrinski Jerome Thor ..... Capt. Andy Marshall John Ireland ..... Sgt. Harry Kurt Kasznar ..... Baron Sergei Ivanoff Leo Genn ..... Gen. Jung-Lu Massimo Serato ..... Garibaldi Paul Lukas ..... Dr. Steinfeldt Philippe Leroy ..... Julliard Robert Helpmann ..... Prince Tuan Synopsis:In the early years of the 20th century, Peking (now Beijing) is an open city with the Chinese and several European countries vie for control. The Boxers, who oppose Christianity and the western powers who still exercised complete sovereignty over their compounds and their citizens. The head of the US garrison is Maj. Matt Lewis, an experienced China hand who knows local conditions well. He meets an exiled Russian Baroness, Natalie Ivanoff with whom he falls in love. The political situation is tension-filled with the Boxers having the tacit approval of the Dowager Empress. When the Boxers attack the foreigners, Maj. Lewis, working with the senior officer from the British Embassy, Sir Arthur Robinson, tries to keep them at bay pending the arrival of a relief force. Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Maj. Matt Lewis, the leader of an army of multinational soldiers who head to Peking during the infamous Boxer Rebellion of 1900. As the film unfolds, the foreign embassies in Peking are being held in a grip of terror as the Boxers set about massacring Christians in an anti-Christian nationalistic fever. Inside the besieged compound, the finicky British ambassador (David Niven) gathers the beleaguered ambassadors into a defensive formation. Included in the group of high-level dignitaries is a sultry Russian Baroness (Ava Gardner) who takes a shine to Lewis upon his arrival at the embassy compound with his group of soldiers. As Lewis and the group conserve food and water and try to save some hungry children, they await the arrival of expected reinforcements, but the tricky Chinese Empress Tzu Hsi (Flora Robson) is, in the meantime, plotting with the Boxers to break the siege at the compound with the aid of Chinese recruits. 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. US/CANADA/MEXICO BUYER WARNING o WARNING: Please note that we sell NTSC/Region 1 DVDs from USA and PAL/Region 2&4 DVDs from other countries. 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