East of Elephant Rock

　　1977英国剧情片《East of Elephant Rock》由唐·博伊德导演，约翰·赫特主演，影片讲述的是：
East of Elephant Rock is a 1977 British independent drama film directed by Don Boyd and starring John Hurt Jeremy Kemp and Judi Bowker It was Boyds second feature film following his littlenoticed 1975 Intimate Reflections Like William Somerset Maughams 1927 play The Letter and two subsequent film adaptations its narrative content depen...[显示全部]ded on the 1911 Ethel Proudlock murder in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia which became a cause célèbre scandalising British colonial society and which had been featured in a Sunday Observer article as recently as the year before Boyd drawing in part on his own experience of growing up in an increasingly dysfunctional family in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion wanted to tell a story about the decline of the Empire and the surrender of responsibility In the event his project was for the most part ridiculed but the film did draw warm support from the film director Bryan Forbes