Elephant Walk

Elephant Walk is a 1954 Paramount Pictures film, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer.

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 because it blocks their migrating path. Ruths 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 husbands 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.The film was based on a novel published in 1949. Film rights were originally bought by Douglas Fairbanks Jnr and Alexander Macdonald for their production company, Dougfair. The movie was to be released through United Artists and star Fairbanks and Deborah Kerr. D M Marshman Jnr signed to do the script. Filming was postponed due to poor weather in Ceylon. ........

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