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Elephant Walk
film by Dieterle [1954]
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- In William Dieterle: Later films
Elephant Walk (1954) was begun with Vivien Leigh, but she left the film when her health collapsed. Elizabeth Taylor took her place as a young wife who struggles after moving to the Ceylonese plantation of her unstable husband (Peter Finch). Dieterle made just two more…
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role of Finch
- In Peter Finch
…Taylor in the Hollywood movie Elephant Walk (1954), he focused more exclusively on cinema work. Finch’s performance as an Australian POW in Malaya (now in Malaysia) in A Town Like Alice (1956) won him the first of five British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards as best actor.…
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