patches Posted January 27, 2023 #1 Posted January 27, 2023 Found a bunch of Photos of High Quality from the movie.
sundance Posted January 27, 2023 #11 Posted January 27, 2023 Thank you for posting. Always enjoyed this movie.
warguy Posted January 27, 2023 #12 Posted January 27, 2023 Sure wish those pockets on those blue flannel 1883 shirts didn't have pleats and flaps! Nice photos though.
patches Posted January 28, 2023 Author #22 Posted January 28, 2023 This Castle, as the movie was done in Spain, it was specially built for the movie, just like the whole set of the city of Peking quite a job right.
patches Posted January 28, 2023 Author #23 Posted January 28, 2023 "55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American movie starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven. It dramatizes the siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Due to Communist China’s hostility and its isolation from the Western world, a full-scale, admirably accurate replication of parts of old Peking, including sewers, was built in Spain on a compound of 240,000 square meters"
Dirk Posted January 28, 2023 #24 Posted January 28, 2023 These are great pix Patches! Fun to see how Hollywood tried to approximate the correct look and where they came close or fell short…your photos show Charleston Heston’s prop field hat had holes for the EGA mounted in the front, but it looks like they then shifted the EGA to the side. Apart from that, the presence of an officers hat cord, and the funky vent holes, his hat is not bad when compared to known originals….and if you could look past the modern EGA. Here is a publicity still I have from the movie…
Backtheattack Posted January 28, 2023 #25 Posted January 28, 2023 A great movie, patches, great thank`s. Had a look at youtube today.
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