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Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
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Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Alfred Lynch
Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was an English actor on stage, film and television.
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Alfredo Mayo
Alfredo Fernández Martínez (born 17 May 1911 in Barcelona - 19 May 1985 in Palma de Mallorca) better known as Alfredo Mayo was a Spanish actor.
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Andrew Marton
Andrew Marton, nicknamed "Bandy" (pronounced "Bundy"), (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American film director, producer and editor.
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Anti-Western sentiment
Anti-Western sentiment, also known as Anti-Atlanticism refers to broad opposition or hostility to the people, culture, values, or policies of the Western World.
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Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress and singer.
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Battle of Peking (1900)
The Battle of Peking, or historically the Relief of Peking, was the battle on 14–15 August 1900, in which a multi-national force, led by Britain, relieved the siege of foreign legations in Peking (now Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Beijing Legation Quarter
The Beijing Legation Quarter was the area in Beijing, China where a number of foreign legations were located between 1861 and 1959.
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Ben Barzman
Ben Barzman (October 12, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist, blacklisted during the McCarthy Era and best known for his screenplays for the films Back to Bataan (1945), El Cid (1961), and The Blue Max (1966).
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Bernard Gordon (writer)
Bernard Gordon (October 29, 1918 – May 11, 2007) was an American writer and producer.
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Box office bomb
In the motion picture industry, a "box office bomb" or "box office flop" is a film that is considered highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, often following significant hype regarding its cost, production, or marketing efforts.
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion (拳亂), Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement (義和團運動) was a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty.
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Burt Kwouk
Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk, OBE (18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films.
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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter or Charlton John Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.
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Chinese nationalism
Chinese nationalism is the form of nationalism in China which asserts that the Chinese people are a nation and promotes the cultural and national unity of the Chinese.
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Chinese people in Spain
Chinese people in Spain form the ninth-largest non-European Union foreign community in Spain.
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Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Colonel Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, (12 June 1852 – 10 September 1915) was a British soldier and diplomat, best known for his service in China and Japan.
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Concession (territory)
In international law, a concession is a territory within a country that is administered by an entity other than the state which holds sovereignty over it.This is usually a colonizing power, or at least mandated by one, as in the case of colonial chartered companies.
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David Niven
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist.
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Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor.
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Dong Kingman
Dong Kingman (31 March 1911 – 12 May 2000) was a Chinese American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters.
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Earthquake (1974 film)
Earthquake is a 1974 American ensemble disaster film directed and produced by Mark Robson.
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Edwin H. Conger
Edwin Hurd Conger (March 7, 1843 – May 18, 1907) was an American Civil War soldier, lawyer, banker, Iowa congressman, and United States diplomat.
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Eight-Nation Alliance
The Eight-Nation Alliance was an international military coalition set up in response to the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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Elizabeth Sellars
Elizabeth Sellars (born 6 May 1923) is a Scottish actress.
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi1 (Manchu: Tsysi taiheo; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908.
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Epic film
Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.
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Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.
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Fernando Sancho
Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor.
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Film poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film.
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Flora Robson
Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, (28 March 19027 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity.
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Geoffrey Bayldon
Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor.
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Gold Key Comics
Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands.
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Guy Green (filmmaker)
Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC (5 November 191315 September 2005) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
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Harry Andrews
Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers.
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Historical period drama
The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.
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Historical period drama films set in Asia
Historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based on historical events and famous persons.
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Howard Terpning
Howard Terpning (born November 5, 1927) is an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of Native Americans.
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IMDb
IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.
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Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard, B.S.C. (17 March 1908 in London – September 1990 in London) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 80 films during his career.
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Jacques Sernas
Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.
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James Dean
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor.
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Japanese nationalism
is the nationalism that asserts that the Japanese are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese.
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Jerry Wald
Jerry Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962) was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs.
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John Ireland (actor)
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor and film director.
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John Twiggs Myers
John Twiggs Myers (January 29, 1871 – April 17, 1952) was a United States Marine Corps general who was most famous for his service as the American Legation Guard in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.
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José Nieto (actor)
José García López (3 May 1902 – 10 August 1982) better known as José Nieto was a Spanish actor.
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Joseph Furst
Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.
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Juzo Itami
, born, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director.
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Kurt Kasznar
Kurt Kasznar (born Kurt Servischer; August 12, 1913 – August 6, 1979) was an Austrian-American stage, film, and television actor who played roles on Broadway, appearing in the original productions of Waiting for Godot, The Sound of Music and Barefoot in the Park and had many notable parts in television and feature films.
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Las Rozas de Madrid
Las Rozas de Madrid (or simply, Las Rozas) is one of the larger townships and municipalities in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain, with an area of between 58.8 and 59.14 km².
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Leo Genn
Leopold John "Leo" Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister.
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Lightning Over Water
Lightning Over Water is a 1980 documentary film by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray about the last days of Ray's own life; the director was most famous for his 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause.
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List of American films of 1963
A list of American films released in 1963.
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List of highest-grossing films
Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights and merchandising.
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Lynne Sue Moon
Lynne Sue Moon (born 1949) is an Anglo-Chinese former child actress of the 1960s, best known for her appearance in the historical drama 55 Days at Peking.
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Martial arts film
Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films, which feature numerous martial arts fights between characters.
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Martin Miller (actor)
Martin Miller, born Rudolph Muller (2 September 1899 – 26 August 1969) was a Czech-Austrian character actor who played many small roles in British films and television series from the early 1940s until his death.
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Massimo Serato
Massimo Serato, born Giuseppe Segato, (31 May 1916 – 22 December 1989) was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years.
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Michael Chow (restaurateur)
Michael Chow (born 1 February 1939) is a Chinese-American actor, interior designer, and restaurateur.
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Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.
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Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause. Ray is also appreciated for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer.
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No-Do
No-Do is the colloquial name for Noticiarios y Documentales, ("News and Documentaries"), a state-controlled series of cinema newsreels produced in Spain from 1943 to 1981 and closely associated with the 1936–1975 reign of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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Noel Gerson
Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.
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Pan-European nationalism
Pan-European nationalism is a political term, apparently coined by Hannah Arendt in 1954 for a (hypothetical, or postulated) ideology of nationalism based on a pan-European identity.
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Paul Francis Webster
Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
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Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 – August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor.
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Philip Yordan
Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 – March 24, 2003) was an American screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s who also produced several films.
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Philippe Leroy (actor)
Philippe Leroy, full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu (born 15 October 1930) is a French film actor.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.
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Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers.
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Robert Hamer
Robert James Hamer (31 March 1911, Kidderminster, Worcestershire – 4 December 1963, London) was a British film director and screenwriter.
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Robert Helpmann
Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (9 April 190928 September 1986) was an Australian dancer, actor, theatre director and choreographer.
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Robert Lawrence (film editor)
Robert Lawrence (November 9, 1913 – September 19, 2004) was a Canadian film editor who was nominated at the 33rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing for the film Spartacus.
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Robert Urquhart (actor)
Robert Urquhart (16 October 1922 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.
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Ronald Brittain
Ronald Brittain, MBE (2 September 1899 – 9 January 1981) was a well-known Regimental Sergeant Major (R.S.M.) in the British Army.
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Ronglu
Ronglu (6 April 1836 – 11 April 1903), courtesy name Zhonghua, was a Manchu political and military leader of the late Qing dynasty.
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Russian nobility
The Russian nobility (дворянство. dvoryanstvo) arose in the 14th century.
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Samuel Bronston
Samuel Bronston (Samuel Bronshtein, March 26, 1908, Bessarabia – January 12, 1994, Sacramento, California) was a Bessarabian-born American film producer, film director, and a nephew of socialist revolutionary figure, Leon Trotsky.
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Second unit
Second unit is a discrete team of filmmakers tasked with filming shots or sequences of a production, separate from the main or "first" unit.
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Shiba Gorō
was a samurai and later a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Siege of the International Legations
The Siege of the International Legations occurred in the summer of 1900 in Peking (today Beijing), the capital of the Qing Empire, during the Boxer Rebellion.
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Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
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Technirama
Technirama is a screen process that has been used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.
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Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Walter Gotell
Walter Jack Gotell (15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore-era of the James Bond film series, as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love.
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Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema.
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Yìhéquán
The Yihequan, or Fists of Harmony and Justice (also named Yihetuan, League of Harmony and Justice), was a Chinese secret society known for having triggered the Boxer Rebellion.
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Yuen Siu-tien
Yuen Siu-tien (27 November 1912 – 8 January 1979) (also known as Yuan Xiaotian, Simon Yuen, Sam Seed or "Ol' Dirty") was a Hong Kong martial arts film actor in the late 1970s.
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Zaiyi
Zaiyi (Manchu:; dzai-i; 26 August 1856 – 24 November 1922),Edward J.M. Rhoads, Manchus & Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928, University of Washington Press, 2001 better known by his title Prince Duan (or Prince Tuan), was a Manchu prince and statesman of the late Qing dynasty.
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1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra, Alfred Hitchcock's horror ''The Birds'', and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Days_at_Peking
