ELEPHANT WALK **

This exotic melodrama benefits considerably from some luscious scenery and that includes leading lady Elizabeth Taylor, still only twenty-two, as the new wife of tea-planter Peter Finch. The setting is Ceylon and "Elephant Walk" isn't just the mansion in which Taylor and Finch live, (it's called a bungalow here), but the route the elephants would take on their way to their watering-hole if someone hadn't built a house in their path.

Thanks to Loyal Griggs' Technicolor photography this is a gorgeous looking picture, (Taylor never looked more beautiful than she did here), with a decent storyline. Throw Dana Andrews into the mix and you have a perfect romantic triangle. Add Abraham Sofaer as a sort of male 'Mrs. Danvers' and we're almost in 'Rebecca' territory. It may never rise above soap-opera but with an elephant stampede and cholera dampening the flames of passion it's a very enjoyable example of its kind.