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...Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas; there are fireworks and plenty of blood mixed with the mob scenes, and the sets are Bronstonian in magnificence...
...Days at Peking. The year is 1900. In a dragon-encrusted ballroom reminiscent of the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theater, David Niven, the British ambassador to Peking, is throwing a diplomatic ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. The music stops, and there is a shiver of terror: a brocaded sedan chair brings Prince Tuan, complete with jeweled-gold fingernail scabbards and about as welcome as Dr. Fu Manchu at a meeting of the A.M.A. Prince Tuan (ex-dancer Robert Helpmann) is the leader of the "Fists of Righteousness" (known as Boxers in the occidental press), those...
...demoralized diplomats are all for pulling out when the fireworks begin, but Ambassador Niven-gnawing his mustache to denote deep thought-counsels them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning...
...still be clear, but that's all. Holden will probably stick by his loyalty to Switzerland anyway. Where else could he have George Sanders, Gregory Peck, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner. Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Ustinov, Noel Coward, David Niven, Jack Palance and James Mason for approximate neighbors...
...leave the silver screen for the gold mines of TV, a onetime choirboy from Mountain View, Ark., who broke into the early talkies as a baby-faced crooner, later retyped himself as a good bad guy in a dozen movies, none as successful as his co-ownership (with David Niven and Charles Boyer) of Four Star Television, which had as many as 13 shows (among them: The Rifleman, Richard Diamond) going at one time; of cancer; in Hollywood...