The Diva - Samlingsbox

ELEPHANT WALK: Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch and Dana Andrews star in this action.packed drama set in Ceylon. Taylor plays a newlywed who accompanies Finch to his sprawling tea plantation caled Elephant Walk... and falls for overseer Andrews. But this love triangle is soon dwarfed by other events. A cholera epidemic break out, drought blights the land and herds of thirst-maddened elephants devastate the plantation in a thundering stampede. This famed sequence is a trumph of moviemaking. The palatial "bungalow" is reduced to rubble as onrushing elephants pound across polished floors, rip walls from their foundations and knock over kerosene drums to ignite a terrifying inferno. You have to see it to believe it! A PLACE IN THE SUN: George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" garnered six Academy Awards (including Best Director and Best Screenplay) and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift stars as George Eastman, a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelly Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Eastman is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.