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Elephant Walk

  • 1954
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  • 1h 43m
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6.3/10
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Elephant Walk (1954)
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The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.

  • Director
    • William Dieterle
  • Writers
    • Robert Standish
    • John Lee Mahin
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Dana Andrews
    • Peter Finch
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    2.6K
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    • Director
      • William Dieterle
    • Writers
      • Robert Standish
      • John Lee Mahin
    • Stars
      • Elizabeth Taylor
      • Dana Andrews
      • Peter Finch
    • 45User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    "Elephant Walk" P. Finch, E. Taylor, D. Andrews 1954 Paramount MPTV
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    • Ruth Wiley
    Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews
    • Dick Carver
    Peter Finch
    Peter Finch
    • John Wiley
    Abraham Sofaer
    Abraham Sofaer
    • Appuhamy
    Abner Biberman
    Abner Biberman
    • Dr. Pereira
    Noel Drayton
    Noel Drayton
    • Planter Atkinson
    Rosalind Ivan
    Rosalind Ivan
    • Mrs. Lakin
    Barry Bernard
    • Planter Strawson
    Philip Tonge
    Philip Tonge
    • Planter John Ralph
    Edward Ashley
    Edward Ashley
    • Planter Gordon Gregory
    Leo Britt
    • Planter Chisholm
    My Lee Haulani
    • Rayna
    • (as Mylee Haulani)
    Madhyma Lanka Nritya Mandala Dancers
    • Dancers
    Henry Carr
    • Servant
    • (uncredited)
    Delmar Costello
    • Native Patient
    • (uncredited)
    Eddie Das
    • Servant
    • (uncredited)
    Jiva Raj De Alwis
    • Servant
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Heard
    • Planter
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William Dieterle
    • Writers
      • Robert Standish(novel)
      • John Lee Mahin
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Vivien Leigh was originally cast as Ruth. Her mental illness began affecting things during filming, and she was replaced by Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Many long shots and shots from behind are still of Leigh.
    • Goofs
      During the first bicycle polo scene, there are four drink glasses on the server's tray when John Wiley takes one, followed by another rider who also grabs a glass, leaving just two on the tray. However the very next pass in which a rider goes for a glass the tray is full.
    • Quotes

      Ruth Wiley: Oh, what a beautiful view!

      John Wiley: That's the elephant walk where the place got its name. Before the governor built here, the elephants used to come down that track for centuries to get to the water.

      Ruth Wiley: They don't still try to come through do they?

      John Wiley: Elephants always remember.

    • Connections
      Featured in Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Many Dreams Ago
      Music by Franz Waxman

      Lyrics by Mack David

    User reviews45

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    5/10
    Oh Give Me A Home, Where The Elephants Roam
    Elizabeth Taylor, fresh from Chillingford-on-the-Thames, has just married Ceylonese tea planter Peter Finch and he's taken her back home. He's got quite a place over in what is now Sri Lanka, a 'bungalow' big enough to have a polo field. And that's exactly what they do there. He and his father's friends get on bicycles and play polo in the living room.

    It's all tradition you know started by Finch's dad who is known to one and all as 'the Guv'nor.' He must have been something else, in everyone's memory he becomes almost a caricature of the colonial Briton.

    The man must truly have been nuts or else he was one of those colonials who Noel Coward warned went out in the noon day sun a little too long. He built this palatial estate right on a well worn path that the elephants use to get to fresh water when the streams dry up in their neck of the woods. The local natives have to periodically ward them off with noise. They can't kill them because of the strict conservation laws and the Buddhist tradition.

    Maybe I missed something here, but did he have to build the house right there? Does make for a spectacular climax though.

    Peter Finch feels the need to keep traditions up and all the friends come over every week, get stinking drunk, and play bicycle polo in the living room. Not exactly the home Liz had in mind. She seeks some solace with overseer Dana Andrews who being American is not into all the colonial British traditions.

    Elephant Walk, which is also the name of the Finch estate, has the advantage of some really beautiful cinematography in Sri Lanka. Lends an air of realism to a rather unreal plot.

    Check out Abraham Sofaer who plays the major domo of Elephant Walk with the biggest handlebar mustache on record. One that Terry-Thomas would have envied.

    Vivien Leigh was supposed to do Elephant Walk, but she bowed out do to health issues. That tuberculosis did flare up at the right time though.
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    • Release date
      • August 3, 1954 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Elefantenpfad
    • Filming locations
      • Ratmalana Airport, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $3,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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