Prince Tuan cut scene CUT!
I have now seen 55DAP three times on TCM and each time the scene ironically of Prince Tuan making the slice motion under his own throat to signal the Boxers to kill the German Minister has been cut. I saw this movie as a kid at a drive-in near Lake Chautauqua the summer it came out. We were on our annual June vacation. (I loved fishing on the lake in a motor boat). A lot of scenes stuck with me and that was one of them. The others of course would be the rocket launched from the tower dragged on the train tracks and as a kid feeling bad for the little orphan girl. Oh yeah and that crazy cannon of the priest. "Bad luck indeed you weren't You praying hard enough."
We who know our history are doomed to watch others repeat it.