Woman meets man, falls in love with him and marries him. He lives in Ceylon where he has a tea plantation. He brings her to live with him in Ceylon. His dead father is revered by him and by the community living there. This reverence, and the sort of behavior it entails, is a source of discomfort to the wife. She feels connected to one of his husband's employees, who falls in love with her. He is quitting the plantation and wants to take her with him.
This is a variation on Rebecca, and brings the story closer to the ultimate source of both stories, the folktale Bluebeard. Another very similar movie to Elephant Walk is The Naked Jungle, released in the same year. Very few people seem to have enjoyed Elephant Walk much, and I am no different from the majority here. The lavish production, partial location shooting, and interesting cast give the film a modicum of watchability, but it feels at once contrived and short on thrills, except for the final section, which comes too late to save the movie.
Rating: 47
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