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55 Days at Peking (1963) Rank 5 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give 55 Days at Peking (1963) a score of 2.2740 out of 4

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Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

"Lively but overlong adventure picture." ...read the complete 55 Days at Peking movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

DVDBeaver

This blockbuster was produced by Samuel Bronston, who produced such epics as "El Cid", "The Fall of the Roman Empire", and "King of Kings". These movies all featured an all-star cast and were characterized by larger than life portrayals of the ...read the complete 55 Days at Peking movie review at DVDBeaver

DigitalVD.de (Tino Hahn)

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Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)

Sometime during 55 Days at Peking, Nicholas Ray's war epic and farewell to Hollywood filmmaking, a character describes the horrors of "an enormous, empty, Chinese limbo," and unfortunately that seems a perfectly apt description of this ...read the complete 55 Days at Peking movie review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)