Writer John Lee Mahin
Director William Dieterle
Elephant Walk
Tagline: One man claimed the land. Two men claimed the woman who lived there.
Release Date: 1954-04-21
Duration: 103 minutes
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; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Casting
- Elizabeth TaylorRuth Wiley
- Philip TongePlanter John Ralph
- Dana AndrewsDick Carver
- Edward AshleyPlanter Gordon Gregory
- Peter FinchJohn Wiley
- Abner BibermanDr. Pereira
- Barry BernardPlanter Strawson
- Noel DraytonPlanter Atkinson
- Abraham SofaerAppuhamy
- Leslie SketchleyPlanter (uncredited)
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