55 days at peking but it's only the boxers (1/2)

[@PeterT-i1w]

I'm glad they were able to find the least Chinese looking people to play the Chinese

[@audreyharris7643]

This is a joke right

[@skylongskylong1982]

Filmed entirely in Spain. Most of the extra’s from the Spanish Army.

[@PeterT-i1w]

thanks, that explains why they don't even remotely look Asian

[@raditya5663]

​@@PeterT-i1weven the set is too dry for subtropic asian region

[@bernardus4646]

extras

[@mikewinston8709]

David Niven playing the Viscount Bertie (pronounced Barty) of Thame. My parents (I’m 69) worked for Bertie and his wife in their retirement at Applemore House in the New Forest.

[@KempoWarrior1954]

Interesting! I can imagine his "war stories".

[@EngPheniks]

The boxers look like vampires 😅

[@moritamikamikara3879]

I don't see them bouncing

[@elizabethroberts6215]

……the actor who played Prince Tuan was the Australian, Sir Robert Helpmann. He was also a world-famous ballet dancer, so did all the choreography for this film. Wonderfully talented man………

[@willsherman1049]

Napoleon observed: "China is a sleeping giant. God forbid anyone should wake her". Perhaps his words echo from beyond the tomb.

[@cjwong]

What is the Kryptonite to a Chinese Boxer? A U.S. Marine. Hint hint: Look up Dan Daly

[@emilmlodnicki3835]

inflation calculator doesn't work for 1900, only 1913. But $40 is $1250 in 2023.

[@PeterT-i1w]

The 1900 Liberty Head $20 Gold Coins contain 0.9613 ounces of gold, so those two coins worth at least 4k today

[@KempoWarrior1954]

Made in 1963 and filmed in Spain.

[@ramonencarrizo2681]

It is the first movie where there is Chinese Kung Fu before Bruce Lee and David Carradine in 1963. Great 👍😃

[@MichaelSaunders-y2m]

@@ramonencarrizo2681 That's not kung-fu fu.

[@picardtseng]

The entire thing was a nuts! Qing Dynasty declared war against the world -- by attacking embassies at its own capital with a bunch of boxers (instead of regular army...btw Qing didn't had modern nationalized army yet back to this age ), just showed how ignorant and fool the Qing's regime was . Given a fact that the south eastern provinces of China declared they were not in that boxers sxxt, and Qing's navy cooperated to the coalition reinforcements by surrendered without firing a single shell. All these with clear mind knew that only given the Western imperialism a perfect excuse to carve up China.On the other hands, it also showed how desperate that invading by Western imperialism, forced to cede lands and signed unequal treaties, let the foreign army into Qing's capital since 1840 the first Opium War. That laid the background of the raising of extreme national sentiments and hatred against Western in some parts of China, and end up with entire China fallen into the hand of Chinese Communist Party , which raised the flag of nationalism, in 1949.

[@salvadorvizcarra769]

What? "Qing Dynasty declared war against the "World", by attacking embassies... Just showed how Ignorant and Fool the Qing's regime was?" Are U implying that China didn't have the Right to Defend itself against the invaders of its Homeland? Look here: For centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example our country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). The Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 30’s, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Yup… Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Belgium, Holland, the US, etc. China, destroyed, ruined, debased by Opium, had to fight ALONE against all the Western powers, plus Japan. And today, Western Propaganda and Hollywood have made you believe that Defending the Homeland with Boxers was nonsense. Cuz "The Chinese People are the bad guys in the movie".

[@RickSmith-c1g]

The Qing had modern regiments. For some odd reason of history most were Muslim. But the Empress and her court were slow playing the situation, relying on the Boxers to seize the Legations for them, and surround Seymore's Expedition. Which is why the Taku forts were manned, but Chinese navy never sortied, and the army sat out most of the attacks on both forces.

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

they'd rather die trying than live kneeling. you have to respect that.

[@paulmasterson386]

@@RickSmith-c1gthe empress was opposed to the boxers but they were supported by many of the Manchu aristocracy. That put the empress in a very difficult position. She made sure that the legation was surrounded by imperial troops which she had control over,and not boxers which she had no control over. The empress knew that China had to get along with the western world,but the boxers were relentless xenophobes who wanted all foreigners out of China.

[@richardthomas5362]

Add to that President McKinley's open door policy for China that infuriated the German Kaiser so much that he had plans drawn up to invade the US east coast with a large army after the high seas fleet had destroyed the US navy.

[@jmc1000mickey]

Hollywood history....PS is Braveheart in it?

[@Euriprides]

Not a single Chinese at the Chinese court. Remarkable, only englishmen and women.

[@TheSaltydog07]

Great film. It led me to the history of the Rebellion.

[@33Donner77]

Great movie.

[@traceytraced]

A historical movie filmed in Spain about American, British, French, Italian, Russian, German, and Japanese intervention in the Manhcus Boxer Rebellion

[@midlandredux]

To be clear, it was the Boxers who did the "intervention." The Qing government wasn't defending China, so they created a mass uprising to exterminate all foreigners and Chinese Christians. Herbert Hoover an American engineer working for the Chinese, had to flee with his wife Lou to Tientsin, where they helped defend the city. Lou Henry Hoover is, as far as I can tell, still the only American First Lady who was an actual combat veteran.

[@guimarboy]

And the Spanish diplomat of Irish descent from Tenerife who led the diplomats was written out of the movie which is funny as it was filmed in Spain.

[@vampirecount3880]

Ok can anyone explain to a dumb Brazilian the scene when the major points the soword to the big guy? I dont get it Amazing movie BTW. Shame they dont do those anymore :(

[@KempoWarrior1954]

I think it was just a shock value thing. The Boxer with the sword expected Lewis to strike him but he turned the tables around. Movie was filmed in 1963 so interesting to see some actual weaponry/Chinese Boxing/Kung Fu on film.

[@francisjones174]

Agree with 1st reply - the Qing prince was making out there was no way a Westerner could hurt a Boxer, but instead of cutting at the Boxer, he thrusted, thus taking him by surprise and helpless

[@KempoWarrior1954]

The Boxers were almost hypnotised in believing they would be impervious to Western bullets. I'd love to see any artifacts from that period in a Museum if there are any.@@francisjones174

[@elizabethroberts6215]

……the scene was also a slap in the face to ‘Prince Tuan’, who led the Boxers’.

[@phantomcruizer]

No it’s not ashame that they don’t make movies like this anymore…there are three sides to every story side A, side B, and the absolute truth! You’re just seeing the Western side!

[@aabc4852]

7:21 在滿洋時期已有簡体字 「 尽 」？應用 「 盡 」。

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Our Lady of China, pray for us! ❤

[@laurentbeaulieu4443]

This was such an European imperialist movie. Would never be shown today.

[@nigelmansfield3011]

Very true!

[@victorwong2875]

Such a very anti-West comment depicting her self-hatred. Your sons and future generations would be ashamed of you.

[@vampirecount3880]

Amazing movie isnt it? A shame what modern hollywood had become. :(

[@Trgn]

​​@@vampirecount3880 What you mean. Holywood is still making jerk off war movies like this years later about Vietnam, Iraq Afghanistan, but only that US lose the war in reality 😂 there's jerk off movies right now about Ukraine, go watch some.

[@historiamilitaris5161]

Better than most of todays progressive bullshits.

[@williamewing5509]

I have got movie DVDS of David Niven with Telly Savalas Claudia Cardinal Elliott Gould Anthony Valentine David Niven Roger Moore are both German Officers Richard Roundtree Sonny Bono and Stephanie Powers in Escape To Athena with Peter Sellars in The Pink Panther with Gregory Peck Anthony Quayle Anthony Quinn Stanley Baker and James Darren in The Guns Of Naverone I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris Marie and Hester Brand from Billyxxxxx

[@ikmalkamal5830]

Man. I really loved the movie when I was a kid (still do). Always cheered for the Japanese and the Europeans. They look so stylish and badass in their imperialistic flare. Makes me wish my country was that powerful.

[@Zaptiye_Amirligi]

5:13 Death Of Clemens Von Ketteler (German Minister) killed by Boxers

[@tobiasehling6314]

everybody gangster until the huns arrive...

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

What film is this

[@phantomcruizer]

“55 Days at Peking” 😎

[@historiamilitaris5161]

Civilisation against barbarians.

[@Apenas_Um_Brasileiro]

What "civilization" and what "barbarians" are you talking about exactly?

[@cezar211091]

Tell me how little you understand from history.

[@historiamilitaris5161]

@@cezar211091 ok, who built Europe and America? Chinese? No, UK and other European powers.

[@historiamilitaris5161]

@@Apenas_Um_Brasileiro British and Chinese

[@Edsterr]

That comment is super racist.

[@pietrocalcioli8169]

Bellissimo film

[@TerrariumDiscoveryGamingMore]

NAHHHH no way HE SHOT HIMSELF🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kangaroojack6460]

but the boxers were the good guys

[@MichaelSaunders-y2m]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@kangaroojack6460]

@@MichaelSaunders-y2m We were the ones selling "fentanyl" i mean opium. the boxers were trying to stop it,

[@gotfreid]

the Boxers were the good guys. they were trying to keep the western powers out. they wanted china for china

[@NyemotAnimation]

why he's European

[@happyreaper5429]

Great film but nobody says why the boxers are upset.

[@brianflynn5355]

Chinese are perpetually upset, because they always fail no matter what they do 🤣

[@imperious8516]

It was in the film during the monologue of the empress, amidst the siege of peking

[@PaulMathews-p4o]

Boxing hard, low wages.

[@Cheesey421]

8:04 Dis dude wasn’t even a boxer and he got shot, Like bruh yall just killed a civilian

[@trap_kyun90yearsago52]

Many

[@kyrios443]

Well yes, it’s pretty much what humans use to do all the time. Nothing special here

[@francisjones174]

This was before the 1907 Hague Convention about proper conduct in wars, so no concept of war crimes yet

[@Apenas_Um_Brasileiro]

They actually just probably thought he was a Boxer.

[@ikmalkamal5830]

Meh. Who cares. It's war. You're supposed to go all out, not adhere to nonsense

[@Truth4Freedom]

Typical putting down the Asian man in Hollywood back in the days

[@jinmo2821]

An extremely racist, imperialist, anti-Asian and white-supremist movie--made during the Vietnam war. The facade was knocked down by their defeat in the Vietnam war. 😆

[@KempoWarrior1954]

Bullshit. Was made in 1963, way before Vietnam.

[@vampirecount3880]

Really? I mean the events on this movie happened a century before the vietnam war though so i dont see the connection. Anyways, i loved this movie, and im not white. Cheers from Brazil :)

[@kyrios443]

I’ve seen more racism nowadays than in this movie

[@Trgn]

This was the peak of Cold War perios where they started making tons of self jerking movies. Watch US Afghanistan and Vietnam war movies and see how they lost the war, hilarious

[@MagicalKid]

​@@vampirecount3880they are saying the film was made during the war, not events in the film

[@nigelmansfield3011]

Great movie!

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

Yes the Boxers underestimated the American Marines, I hope the Chinese don’t make the same mistake.

[@victorkmlee]

Well 50 years later. The Americans underestimated the Chinese.

[@johnkidd2260]

And the British. And the Germans. And the Spanish. And the Italians. And the Japanese. And the Russians. And the French. But sure, it was the plucky American underdogs they underestimated. Curse those freedom-loving Americans, single-handedly fighting every war, without any form of outside assistance!

[@deekay7594]

@@johnkidd2260 All the European powers are related by DNA lineage or distant cousins.. you guys really just killed each other for greedy aims, rather than help your distant family members, ok your in trouble I can help you, and lend you my support and resources.. pay me back when you can or if I ever need help etc.. what if USA went on the side of Germany or axis side in ww1, ww2, cause that's what war really is,supporting a few greedy ppls aims and former allies or foes fighting against or joining each other.. Ppl hate or ppl of the world hate Americans when they behave like arrogrant imperialists like the brits before them.. Is your freedom even real John or you think it is.. if uncle Sam tells you go die/fight for your country for his greedy imperialistic aims you will in the name of freedom.. what if other countries don't want your form of freedom, what if they want there own version Maybe yanks need to get over there america is right (although was wrong many times in modern history lol)

[@johnkidd2260]

@@deekay7594 My brother in Christ, I'm British. My post is pointing out that it wasn't just 'the American Marines' that the Chinese Boxers underestimated, but an entire coalition of foreign powers.

[@deekay7594]

@@johnkidd2260 yeah the Chinese invented fireworks but you guys were the first to think of using them to shoot ppl or each other.. And you guys also came up with the idea of concentration camps Life is forgivable, but don't make the same mistakes twice ;) That's why you never hear the British talk during world summits or so cause they have a history of doing large scale genocides, mass rapes, dealt opium to Chinese, subjugated and exploited many minority 'colonies'.. there modern liberalism and freedom mentality talk only happened because they are no longer number one and for a long time now..

[@marioceva7163]

Is humillant film for China. Was the opiuns wars and colonialism that provoke Boxer reaction.

[@marneus]

China was a corrupt empire with a caste system that controlled everything. Just like now.

[@54blewis]

At a time when European actors played Asian characters,this one as well as” Genghis Khan “…movies of this period were very Eurocentric,jingoistic and (sometimes) downright racist, it’s not just Asians actors who are slighted,Sir Lawrence Olivier played a Sudanese rebel islamic leader in “Khartoum” Sam Jaffe played an Indian water boy in “Gunga Din “the list goes on (did I mention Sir Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal in “Lawerence of Arabia “)

[@nordstern2664]

Its not racist... it was simple because at this time their were no chinese actors in the west. China was poor, underdeveloped and closed to foreign powers. So the filmmakers could not use native actors, they must improvise. Not everything is racist, because it looks so... sometime its a good idea to see the world and political situation in the time were the films were created before condemn them as racists. You can not value a historical event, products, etc without knowing the historical context of it. And you can not value historical action with modern morale. If you do so, ever people in the past, even the open-minded, cosmopolitan and unbiased people in the past are with current morale and ethical values were rassists as hell. If you want to critisize someone in the past, you must evaluate him, with the ethics and morale of the time he lived in. Or do you want to condemed for an action you did in the past and which was not criminal. But with new laws years later it is criminal... was your action criminal or not? It was not... because at the time you did it, it was not criminal and legal. You can not condemn someone retrospectively for actions which were not illegal while they did them. If the government increases the fine for speeding from 20 to 50 EUR... the government can not demand the money from further speeding, only from current and future speeding drivers.

[@54blewis]

@@nordstern2664 there’s a movie called flower drum song with a predominantly Asian and mostly American cast that came out in 1961 and predates (with the exception of Gunga Din) practically all the movies I mentioned here, so to say that there was no Asian or Chinese actors who could have portrayed Asian or Chinese characters is demonstrably wrong,the same could be said about black actors who could have covincingly played the role of the Mahdi in “Khartoum”…being ethnically accurate in films where ethnicity is part of the story did exist even in the 30s and 40s but usually in a negative sense such as how Japanese characters are portrayed in movies dealing with WWII or Chinese characters are seen in where Western culture comes into conflict with Chinese values and traditions….so there were many examples of actors who were available to perform in roles that they were ethnically suited for but Hollywood choose to go with what’s marketable and palatable to their audiences…

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Interesting.

[@justiceriser8970]

If it were realistic version would be the same but when my people doing it but it look pretty obvious it was faked the colonialist wouldn't frown they would cheer and clap because they know it just for show

[@angloaust1575]

Surprised burt kwouk didn't appear in movie. A real chinaman! Also first united nations task force intervening in foreign Land!

[@alerojas2952]

Ya write like Tarzan

[@johntavares7744]

It our FaultWW2 Happon😢

[@braatsch]

very serious case of yellowfacing. begone!

[@louislabouskie8488]

Who cares! Good movie

[@rickster100100]

Charlton Heston was just an average actor. He really had no range. He more behaved than acted.

[@laszlofarkas9895]

You are a really foul person. He played the biggest movies ever made .

[@cane6074]

You have no idea what you are talking about!

[@rickster100100]

@@laszlofarkas9895 He was at the right place at the right time. Just plain damn lucky. Not a Spencer Tracy, Nor a Robert Taylor, or a Burt Lancaster. Those guys were stellar actors.

[@rickster100100]

@@laszlofarkas9895 I beg to differ on both counts.

[@HandleGF]

Look up Gore Vidal making a gay fool of Charlton Heston on Ben Hur 😂

[@HandleGF]

Gay in Ben Hur ... that's Charlton Heston

[@t.wcharles2171]

Gore Vidal claims he made the character gay writing in 1996.

[@HandleGF]

@@t.wcharles2171 the story of Ben Hur makes no sense unless the two lads were lovers 😂

[@t.wcharles2171]

@@HandleGF it really depends how you look at it, they don't have to be but they might be is how I view it.

[@elizabethroberts6215]

……that’s not what was in the book, written by Gen Lew Wallace………

[@raymondyeung2791]

嚴重抗議，這是嚴重傷害十四億中國人感情和尊嚴不負責任的辱華電影。我方嚴重憤怒敦促立即將此電影全球下架。😅

[@ArtyomLensky]

But I've seen the Chinese films in which westerners are depicted as 2D vampiric maniacs.

[@marcobelli6856]

This is history. Cancel that movie About korean war that is more recent

[@marcobelli6856]

You Made it in 2020 or something Like that

[@GANSO_KERAUNOS]

​@@marcobelli6856history of western racism ? You're right

[@marcobelli6856]

@@GANSO_KERAUNOS so who Said history is good or Bad it just is

[@CatsMeowPaw]

Wow, Hollywood is a disgrace

[@laurentbeaulieu4443]

this is so bad as a movie too much over acting.

[@CharlesJenkins-be2cv]

Cry harder.

[@homerzsimpson9698]

A horrible colonialist, imperialistic film.

[@vampirecount3880]

You think so? I love it. I think i've watched this movie like 30 times when i was a child.

[@historiamilitaris5161]

Then do not watch it 😂

[@MarcusBrutus-nu9yj]

Marines yea but don't forget the Army motto I'll try sir was spoken by a black infantryman who was told to plant the American flag on top of the wall in Peking during that battle to let the artillery know not to fire on that position to prevent friendly fire the us army not the marines climbed that wall and planted our flag and we will do it again if China is not careful just like the largest amphibious landing in history was done in Normandy and again by the us army and macarthur in the Philippines by the army not the Marines you their basically to repel borders on ships the us army does the larger major fighting

[@indigohammer5732]

I don’t think the USMC were involved in D Day, they were too busy getting a hiding from the Japanese. The Normandy invasion wasn’t an American enterprise, it was the U.K. Canada and the USA. Interestingly the USMC haven’t been successful in any military engagement since 1945. They do suck really bad

[@GANSO_KERAUNOS]

This movie is hilariously bad 😂

[@digitalcommunist6335]

Weak chingese.