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Elephant Walk (Full Screen Paramount Collection) (Special edition)
- Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch
- Director: William Dieterle
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Elephant Walk was several weeks into production when the film's original leading lady, Vivien Leigh, was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor (you can still see Leigh in a few long shots). Based on a novel by Robert Standish, the film casts Taylor as Ruth Wiley, the new bride of solemn plantation owner John Wiley (Peter Finch). At first thrilled at the prospect of living in the wilds of Ceylon, Ruth rapidly becomes a beautiful bird in a gilded cage. When American overseer Dick Carver (Dana Andrews) arrives on the scene, Ruth falls in love. Before she can leave her husband, though, the region is devastated by cholera. Making things worse, the local elephants go on a rampage, destroying her husband's mansion, which his father had maliciously built in the middle of the pachyderm's ancient right of way. Fraught with ****** symbolism, Elephant Walk works on a high-gloss soap opera level. The climactic stampede, however, is disappointingly filmed on a studio interior set, robbing what should have been a rousing climax of much of its credibility. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Romance
- Category: Marriage Drama, Romantic Adventure
- Theme: Americans Abroad, Fish Out of Water, Infidelity, Interracial/Cross-Cultural Romance, Love Triangles
- Release Date: July 12, 2005
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)Rating Opens in New Window - Suitable for Children
- Studio: Paramount
- Lead Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer, Abner Biberman
- Supporting Actors: Jack Raine, Delmar Costello, Carlos Rivero, Victor Millan, Satini Puailoa, Norma Varden, Noel Drayton, Rosalind Ivan, Barry Bernard, Philip Tonge, Edward Ashley, Leo Britt
- Director: William Dieterle
- Run Time: 1 hr 42 min
- Subtitle Language: English
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 246-01-0861
- ASIN: B002IEHJP0
- Catalog #: 11348156
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.48 inches length x 5.36 inches width x 0.61 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.09 pound.
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Lushly photographed and featuring a stunning (and stunningly costumed) Elizabeth Taylor, Elephant Walk is a fairly ridiculous melodrama that promises much more than it delivers. Fans of soap operas set in exotic locales will lap it up, and it does provide some guilty pleasures, but it's ultimately too shallow to sustain interest. Worse, despite everyone's best efforts to make this a sizzling romance, the heat never really ignites. Part of the blame lies with director William Dieterle. While he has certainly paid a great deal of attention to the film's production values, giving it a sumptuous look, and while he has provided a pace that keeps things moving at a decent clip, he doesn't seem to have spent a lot of time understanding the characters -- or helping the actors to understand them. The talented Peter Finch wanders around rather aimlessly, and Taylor and Dana Andrews are effective but essentially superficial. Still, if one is in an undemanding mood and willing to just drink in the beauty of the sets, costumes, and Taylor, one could do worse than Elephant Walk. Craig Butler, All Movie Guide
