Elephant Walk

After a whirlwind romance in England, Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) marries John Wiley (Peter Finch) and returns with him to his tea plantation in Ceylon. She arrives to find a huge house full of servants and learns that she's the only European woman in the area with the other tea planters being bachelors. Most annoying, however, is the veneration of her husband's late father, who is still adored by Europeans and locals alike. He is the man who built Elephant Walk, their plantation house, so named by the fact that it was built in the direct path used by elephants to get to water. Dick Carver (Dana Andrews) is one of the few who has never bought in to the myth of the great founder and Ruth and he hit it off from the start. With her husband frequently away working, Ruth and Dick develop feelings for one another. A drought and the ensuing cholera epidemic will decide everyone's future.