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Elephant Walk

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Original title

Elephant Walk

Year

1954

Running time

103 min.

Country

United States

Director

William Dieterle

Screenwriter

John Lee Mahin. Novel: Robert Standish

Cast

Music

Franz Waxman

Cinematography

Loyal Griggs

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Adventure. Drama | Animals

Synopsis

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) 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 (Dana Andrews), and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.

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Rankings Position

#34 Best Movies about Animals

Critics' reviews

"'Elephant Walk', though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture."

Time
"Robert Standish's novel about life among the pekoe-planters rates a sprawling script and direction that lacks attention-holding pace from William Dieterle."

Variety Staff: Variety
"The lush Griggs cinematography and rich Waxman score enhance an otherwise lightweight movie."

TV Guide
"I was 11 when I saw William Dieterle's 1954 adaptation of the Robert Standish novel Elephant Walk... and I loved it, though I don't know what I'd think today.

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"Unfortunately, the script that John Lee Mahin prepared from the Robert Standish book is lengthy and hackneyed in the build-up"

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times

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