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About|the 1954 movie||Elephant walk (disambiguation)Infobox Film| name = Elephant Walk| image = Elephant Walk 1954.jpg| image size =| caption = Theatrical release poster| director = William Dieterle | producer = Irving Asher | writer = John Lee Mahin from the novel by Robert Standish | starring = Elizabeth Taylor Dana Andrews Peter Finch Abraham Sofaer Abner Biberman | music = Franz Waxman | cinematography = Loyal Griggs | editing =| distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = April 21, 1954| runtime = 103 minutes| country = Film US| language = English| budget =| gross = $3 million (US) http://heylookmeover.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/film-data-for-1954.html Variety Film Grosses for 1954, Film Data for 1954 accessed 29 April 2012| preceded_by =| followed_by = Elephant Walk is a 1954 Paramount Pictures film, directed by William Dieterle , and starring Elizabeth Taylor , Dana Andrews , Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer .
It is based upon the novel Elephant Walk by "Robert Standish", the pseudonym of the English novelist Digby George Gerahty (1898–1981).
It was originally intended to star the husband and wife team of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (with Olivier in the Finch role). However Olivier was already committed to the project '' The Beggar's Opera (film)|The Beggar's Opera '' (1953). Leigh was enthusiastic about the role and continued in her husband's absence, but she was forced to withdraw from production shortly after filming began in Colombo , Sri Lanka|Ceylon , as a result of bipolar disorder . According to Leonard Maltin 's annual Movie Guide book, Leigh can be seen in some long shots that were not re-filmed after Elizabeth Taylor replaced her.
Plot
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon , where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation because it blocks their migrating path. 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; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants. The elephants end up destroying the plantation in a stampede along with a fire.
Critical reception
Maltin gave the film 2 stars out of 4, and made one of his pithier critiques: "Pachyderm stampede climax comes none too soon." A major plot element in the film is that the tea plantation's manor, where the film's action occurs, had been built in the middle of a path that migrating Indian elephants had previously used.
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