Robert Standish's novel about life among the pekoe-planters rates a sprawling script and direction that lacks attention-holding pace from William Dieterle.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
22 Jul 2008
rotten:
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.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
fresh:
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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
13 Feb 2001
fresh:
Elephant Walk, though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture.