- Elephant Walk should not be confused with the song "Baby Elephant Walk". "Baby Elephant Walk" is a tune written in 1961 by Composer Henry Mancini, for the 1962 release of the movie Hatari!
| Elephant Walk | |
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 original 1954 movie poster |
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| Directed by | William Dieterle |
| Produced by | Irving Asher |
| Written by | John Lee Mahin from the novel by Robert Standish |
| Starring | Elizabeth Taylor Dana Andrews Peter Finch Abraham Sofaer |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | Loyal Griggs |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 21, 1954 |
| Running time | 103 min. William Dieterle ( July 15[[ 893]] – December 9[[ 972]] was a German Actor and Film director Irving Asher (1903 - 1985 was an Producer. He worked as a managing director for Warner Brothers in England in the 1930s working on Alexander Korda 's John Lee Mahin (b August 23 1902, Evanston Illinois - d April 18 1984, Los Angeles) was a prolific Screenwriter Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award -winning English-American actress Dana Andrews ( January 1 1909 - December 17 1992) was an American film actor This article is about the actor For the poet see Peter Finch (poet. Abraham Sofaer ( October 1, 1896 &ndash January 21, 1988) was a Burmese stage film and television actor known particularly Franz Waxman (24 December 1906 &ndash 24 February 1967 was a Jewish German American Composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Elephant Walk is a 1954 Paramount Pictures film, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. William Dieterle ( July 15[[ 893]] – December 9[[ 972]] was a German Actor and Film director Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award -winning English-American actress Dana Andrews ( January 1 1909 - December 17 1992) was an American film actor This article is about the actor For the poet see Peter Finch (poet. Abraham Sofaer ( October 1, 1896 &ndash January 21, 1988) was a Burmese stage film and television actor known particularly
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 husband and wife team of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (with Olivier in the Finch role). Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron Vivien Leigh Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 &ndash 8 July 1967 was an English actress. However Olivier was already committed to the project The Beggar's Opera (1953). Peter Brook 's film version of The Beggar's Opera was made in 1953 starring Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway 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, Ceylon, as a result of bipolar disorder. Colombo ( Sinhala:, ˈkoləmbə Tamil: கொழும்பு is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island 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. Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American Film critic and Film Historian.
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. 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.
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.
External links
- Elephant Walk at the Internet Movie Database
- Elephant Walk at the TCM Movie Database
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