Elephant Walk
DirectorWilliam Dieterle
“One man claimed the land. Two men claimed the woman who lived there.”
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.
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Cast
Elizabeth Taylor
Ruth Wiley
Peter Finch
John Wiley
Dana Andrews
Dick Carver
Abraham Sofaer
Appuhamy
Abner Biberman
Dr. Pereira
Noel Drayton
Planter Atkinson
Rosalind Ivan
Mrs. Lakin
Barry Bernard
Planter Strawson
Philip Tonge
Planter John Ralph
Edward Ashley
Planter Gordon Gregory
Leo Britt
Planter Chisholm
Leslie Sketchley
Planter (uncredited)
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