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ELEPHANT WALK (1954)

By 1954, while struggling with alcoholism, Dana Andrews was back to playing the secondary male lead, who almost gets the girl but ultimately doesn't, here in ELEPHANT WALK opposite Elizabeth Taylor, wife of aloof multi-millionaire tea-plantation owner Peter Finch, in what's a cross between Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA and, ironically, Taylor's following year epic GIANT.

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