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Elephant Walk: Directed by William Dieterle. With Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer. The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.
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- Adventure, Drama
- William Dieterle
- 1954-08-03
Elephant Walk is a 1954 American drama film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer. It is based upon the 1948 novel Elephant Walk by "Robert Standish", the pseudonym of the English novelist Digby George Gerahty (1898–1981).
In January 1953, Leigh travelled to Ceylon to film Elephant Walk with Peter Finch. Shortly after filming commenced, she had a nervous breakdown and Paramount Pictures replaced her with Elizabeth Taylor.
At two a.m. Vivien hurried to the house of Peter and Tamara Finch [Tamara Tchinarova, a reputed ballet dancer] in a state of euphorical hysteria, offering him the role in the film. Vivien convinced him in less than an hour that accepting the part in Elephant Walk would be a great opportunity.
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.
May 2, 2020 · In 1953, during filming in Sri Lanka of what would have been Leigh’s next movie, Elephant Walk, the actress became erratic and paranoid on set. Her chronic insomnia got worse and she complained ...
The location was Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the star was Vivien Leigh, and her replacement was Elizabeth Taylor. The plot of Elephant Walk is somewhat similar to Rebecca (1940), with Elizabeth Taylor as the new bride whom Peter Finch brings home to his ancestral tea plantation in the Ceylon jungle.
