Elephant Walk

Apr 21, 1954

1h 43m

★ 5.8

One man claimed the land. Two men claimed the woman who lived there.

Overview

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.

Genres

Romance

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Elephant Walk Trailers

Cast

Ruth Wiley

Elizabeth Taylor

John Wiley

Peter Finch

Dick Carver

Dana Andrews

Appuhamy

Abraham Sofaer

Dr. Pereira

Abner Biberman

Planter Atkinson

Noel Drayton

Mrs. Lakin

Rosalind Ivan

Planter Strawson

Barry Bernard

Planter John Ralph

Philip Tonge

Planter Gordon Gregory

Edward Ashley

Planter Chisholm

Leo Britt

Planter (uncredited)

Leslie Sketchley

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