Elephant Walk (1954) DVD5 Untouched - Elizabeth Taylor, Dana And

Elephant Walk (1953) DVD5 Untouched - Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews [DDR]

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 (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, 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.

CAST:-
Elizabeth Taylor as Ruth Wiley
Dana Andrews as Dick Carver, the manager of the plantation
Peter Finch as John Wiley, Ruth's husband
Abraham Sofaer as Appuhamy, handyman of John's father Tom
Noel Drayton as Chief Planter Atkinson
Abner Biberman as Doctor Pereira
Rosalind Ivan as Mrs. Lakin
Edward Ashley-Cooper as Planter Gordon Gregory
Barry Bernard as Planter Strawson
Philip Tonge as Planter John Ralph
Leo Britt as Planter Chisholm
Mylee Haulani as Rayna

Directed by William Dieterle
Produced by Irving Asher
Music by Franz Waxman
Running time 103 minutes

MOVIE PLOT:- Elephant Walk (1954)
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.

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.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 5519 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 103 mins
Subtitles: NONE
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]