Elephant Walk 1954

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Unfortunately, the script that John Lee Mahin prepared from the Robert Standish book is lengthy and hackneyed in the build-up, and William Dieterle's direction does not provide anything more than gaudy panoramas of a tropical palace to fascinate the eye. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: I was 11 when I saw William Dieterle's 1954 adaptation of the Robert Standish novel Elephant Walk... and I loved it, though I don't know what I'd think today. Read more

TIME Magazine: Elephant Walk, though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Robert Standish's novel about life among the pekoe-planters rates a sprawling script and direction that lacks attention-holding pace from William Dieterle. Read more