Trivia

The extremely troubled shoot of "55 Days At Peking" led to director Nicholas Ray suffering a serious seizure which forced him to withdraw from the film. Marton had already been busy directing the second unit for the film, but was now tasked with completing the film (although three days were filmed by another director, Guy Green). Nicholas Ray retained full directing credit on the film, and it has been estimated that he filmed a little over half of the finished movie. Marton was given the special credit of "director of second unit operations" and a title-card all to himself.