This exciting movie chronicles the challenging period during the Boxers Rebellion in Peking, where people strike against the control of Christianity over people, the thing that leads Matt Lewis, the American Marine Major to makes a unity with a British consult to save the day.
Nicholas Ray's last commercial film and second blockbuster for Samuel Bronston (after King of Kings) effectively ended his career as a Hollywood director, and the unwieldiness of this spectacular... helps in part to explain why.
Jack Hildyard's photography is excellent, particularly in getting on the big screen the savage attack scenes which take up the major part of the picture.
