Elephant Walk poster
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 Taylor
    Ruth Wiley
  • Philip Tonge
    Planter John Ralph
  • Dana Andrews
    Dick Carver
  • Edward Ashley
    Planter Gordon Gregory
  • Peter Finch
    John Wiley
  • Abner Biberman
    Dr. Pereira
  • Barry Bernard
    Planter Strawson
  • Noel Drayton
    Planter Atkinson
  • Abraham Sofaer
    Appuhamy
  • Leslie Sketchley
    Planter (uncredited)