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name = Elephant Walk
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caption = original 1954 movie poster
director =William Dieterle
producer =Irving Asher
writer =John Lee Mahin
from the novel byRobert Standish
starring =Elizabeth Taylor Dana Andrews Peter Finch Abraham Sofaer
music =Franz Waxman
cinematography =Loyal Griggs
editing =
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released =April 21 ,1954
runtime = 103 min.
country = USA
awards =
language = English
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amg_id = 1:15595
imdb_id = 0046951"Elephant Walk" is a 1954
Paramount Pictures film, directed byWilliam Dieterle , and starringElizabeth Taylor ,Dana Andrews ,Peter Finch andAbraham Sofaer .It is based upon the novel "Elephant Walk" by
Robert Standish , the pseudonym of the English novelist "Digby George Gerahty " (1898-1981).It was originally intended to star husband and wife team of
Laurence Olivier andVivien Leigh (with Olivier in the Finch role). However Olivier was already committed to the project "The Beggar's Opera" (1953). Leigh was enthusiastic about the role and continued in her husband's absence, but she was forced to withdraw from production shortly after filming began inColombo , Ceylon, as a result ofbipolar disorder . According toLeonard Maltin 's annual Movie Guide book, Leigh can be seen in some long shots that were not re-filmed after Elizabeth Taylor replaced her.Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants. The elephants end up destroying the plantation in a stampede along with a fire.
Maltin gave the film 2 stars out of 4, and made one of his pithier critiques: "Pachyderm stampede climax comes none too soon." A major plot element in the film is that the tea plantation's manor, where the film's action occurs, had been built in the middle of a path that migrating Indian elephants had previously used.
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