One man claimed the land. Two men claimed the woman who lived there.
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. 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; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
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Cast
- Elizabeth TaylorRuth Wiley
- Peter FinchJohn Wiley
- Dana AndrewsDick Carver
- Abraham SofaerAppuhamy
- Abner BibermanDr. Pereira
- Noel DraytonPlanter Atkinson
- Rosalind IvanMrs. Lakin
- Barry BernardPlanter Strawson
- Philip TongePlanter John Ralph
- Edward AshleyPlanter Gordon Gregory
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- William DieterleDirector
- John Lee MahinWriter
- Robert StandishNovel
- Loyal GriggsDirector of Photography
- Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer
- George TomasiniEditor
- Irving AsherProducer
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