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Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Arabic ( Subtitles ), Czech ( Subtitles ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Greek ( Subtitles ), Hebrew ( Subtitles ), Hungarian ( Subtitles ), Icelandic ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Polish ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Romanian ( Subtitles ), Serbian ( Subtitles ), Slovenian ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), Turkish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Ruth Wiley (Taylor), a young English bride whose wealthy husband, John (Peter Finch), has spirited her off to his vast tea plantation in the jungles of Ceylon. Initially excited to be in this new environment, Ruth soon discovers that her new husband considers her no more than an attractive possession who can't compete for his attention with activities like indoor polo with his cronies. Since this and similar games absorb much of John's time, his friend Dick Carver (Dana Andrews) actually runs the plantation. No mere businessman, the sensitive Carver likes to rattle off Chopin nocturnes, and he and Ruth soon become involved. Now eager to leave a house that has become like a prison, Ruth asks Dick to take her to Paris, and he agrees. But an epidemic of cholera suddenly breaks out, and everyone on the plantation is put under quarantine. To add to their problems, Ruth has learned that her husband's father built their house directly in the path of an elephant walk--and the local elephants have suddenly become very restless!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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ELEPHANT WALK,in glorious Technicolor,1954,was filmed on the large tropical
island of SRI LANKA formerly CEYLON which is off the coast of Southern INDIA.
Originally intended for the main starring roles were LAURENCE OLIVIER and his then wife VIVIEN LEIGH,
Olivier was too busy in London with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA,but his wife was signed. But the heat and humidity
of Ceylon got too much overpowering for Leigh,and she suffered from insomnia. After a month of location work,very close
to exhaustion,she journeyed back home to Hollywood.
Some very long distance shots of Vivian Leigh were still used in the final film[but she cannot be clearly seen].
ELIZABETH TAYLOR of similar height and build to Leigh replaced her.
Starring with Liz were DANA ANDREWS, PETER FINCH, ABRAHAM SOFAER,amongst others.
ELEPHANT WALK centres on the story of a love triangle on a tea plantation. Ruth Wiley[Taylor]feels not only threatened by
the wild animals of her jungle island home,but also from the echoed will of a ghost,and finally by the bad temper of her husband,
John Wiley[Finch]. Dick Carver[Andrews]is the plantation overseer,he admires Ruth's stunning beauty and lends her a helping hand occasionally.
Most of the time though,she must go it alone,over a cholera epidemic,drunken house guests and a disobedient native worker.
Some fun scenes include a game of polo on bicycles indoors on a polished marble floor.
The plantation and more importantly the grand house is built on the centuries old pathway used by the wild elephants,whose attempts having been
stopped,one day come to ahead,and a massive heard of them smash down the grand house,and who ever gets in their way,to reclaim their rightful
pathway. This film has a brilliant ending,which involved some trick photography giving the viewer the illusion that human beings are mixed up with
a herd of rampaging elephants in the finale,and just prior to that Ruth[Taylor]and her husband John[Finch]are seen fighting for their lifes as a
fire is blazing on all around them[see the staircase scenes etc]. Again brilliant trick photography and certainly the highlight of this film.
Elizabeth Taylor looked totally glamorous in this movie,as always.
Regards,Bill.
island of SRI LANKA formerly CEYLON which is off the coast of Southern INDIA.
Originally intended for the main starring roles were LAURENCE OLIVIER and his then wife VIVIEN LEIGH,
Olivier was too busy in London with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA,but his wife was signed. But the heat and humidity
of Ceylon got too much overpowering for Leigh,and she suffered from insomnia. After a month of location work,very close
to exhaustion,she journeyed back home to Hollywood.
Some very long distance shots of Vivian Leigh were still used in the final film[but she cannot be clearly seen].
ELIZABETH TAYLOR of similar height and build to Leigh replaced her.
Starring with Liz were DANA ANDREWS, PETER FINCH, ABRAHAM SOFAER,amongst others.
ELEPHANT WALK centres on the story of a love triangle on a tea plantation. Ruth Wiley[Taylor]feels not only threatened by
the wild animals of her jungle island home,but also from the echoed will of a ghost,and finally by the bad temper of her husband,
John Wiley[Finch]. Dick Carver[Andrews]is the plantation overseer,he admires Ruth's stunning beauty and lends her a helping hand occasionally.
Most of the time though,she must go it alone,over a cholera epidemic,drunken house guests and a disobedient native worker.
Some fun scenes include a game of polo on bicycles indoors on a polished marble floor.
The plantation and more importantly the grand house is built on the centuries old pathway used by the wild elephants,whose attempts having been
stopped,one day come to ahead,and a massive heard of them smash down the grand house,and who ever gets in their way,to reclaim their rightful
pathway. This film has a brilliant ending,which involved some trick photography giving the viewer the illusion that human beings are mixed up with
a herd of rampaging elephants in the finale,and just prior to that Ruth[Taylor]and her husband John[Finch]are seen fighting for their lifes as a
fire is blazing on all around them[see the staircase scenes etc]. Again brilliant trick photography and certainly the highlight of this film.
Elizabeth Taylor looked totally glamorous in this movie,as always.
Regards,Bill.
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William Dieterle's Elephant Walk is basically Rebecca in the Naked Jungle, with a dead father replacing a dead wife, Abraham Sofaer made up to look surprisingly like Ben Kingsley in the Judith Anderson role and elephants bringing the house down instead of ants. This time it's Elizabeth Taylor (replacing an increasingly erratic Vivien Leigh, who is still reputedly visible in some long shots) as the nice English girl who discovers that her nice husband Peter Finch is still living in the terrible shadow of his father, who bloody-mindedly built their tea plantation bungalow across the path the elephants used to use to the river. While the elephants try to reassert their right of way and the natives go down with cholera, Liz falls for Dana Andrews' more clear-eyed overseer, but this being 1953 and as in thrall to the ghost of Daphne Du Maurier as Finch is to `The Governor', it's a foregone conclusion that this one will end in flames and the sanctity of marriage reaffirmed. Fairly typical studio product, but entertaining enough in its shamelessly derivative way. And don't forget to look out for the present the lead elephant leaves in its wake as it heads down the hill to Elephant Walk!
No extras, but the DVD boasts a good transfer in the original fullframe ratio.
No extras, but the DVD boasts a good transfer in the original fullframe ratio.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This tepid melodrama concerns John Wiley, a rich tea planter (Peter Finch) who brings his new wife Ruth (Elizabeth Taylor) home to "Elephant Walk," his plantation in Ceylon. The palatial home was built (purposely) to block the wild elephants' path to water, and they have never forgiven the owners. Ruth finds the adjustment difficult as her loving, debonair groom turns into a drunken, boorish lout who cares more about entertaining his fellow planters than being with her. Enter the sensitive overseer (Dana Andrews) who takes a liking to Ruth and there's trouble in paradise.
This 1954 movie has exactly the same plot as "The Naked Jungle" which was also released that year, only with elephants instead of army ants. It was only partially filmed on location and those scenes are easy to spot as the colors are intensely bright and vivid with natural light. It's too bad they cut corners and filmed half of the movie indoors in front of stock footage. Going back and forth between real outdoors and fake outdoors is distracting, to say the least. Taylor is lovely to look at, but she and her co-stars overact to the point of being silly; she's too loud, dressing in ridiculous gowns for the jungle, and generally acts like a one-dimensional shrew. There is no romantic chemistry at all between her and Finch or Andrews; both men are wooden caricatures and unconvincing ones at that.
The best part of the movie is the finale which has hundreds of elephants storming the mansion, taking back their "walk." Mercifully, this signals the end of a long and overwrought movie which gives the viewer more opportunities to laugh than swoon.
This 1954 movie has exactly the same plot as "The Naked Jungle" which was also released that year, only with elephants instead of army ants. It was only partially filmed on location and those scenes are easy to spot as the colors are intensely bright and vivid with natural light. It's too bad they cut corners and filmed half of the movie indoors in front of stock footage. Going back and forth between real outdoors and fake outdoors is distracting, to say the least. Taylor is lovely to look at, but she and her co-stars overact to the point of being silly; she's too loud, dressing in ridiculous gowns for the jungle, and generally acts like a one-dimensional shrew. There is no romantic chemistry at all between her and Finch or Andrews; both men are wooden caricatures and unconvincing ones at that.
The best part of the movie is the finale which has hundreds of elephants storming the mansion, taking back their "walk." Mercifully, this signals the end of a long and overwrought movie which gives the viewer more opportunities to laugh than swoon.
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I was surprised how much I enjoyed this film, very different to what I emagined. All charactisations are well played, about rich tea plantations, raging elephants lots of drama. Read more
Published 25 days ago by M. Clark
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Having seen the film many years ago, it was great to see that it was still available via Amazon. What a great prodution this was, why can't we make films like this today. Read more
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