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 Boyd's second feature film following his little-noticed 1975 Intimate Reflections. Like William Somerset Maugham's 1927 play The Letter and two subsequent film adaptations, its narrative content depended on the 1911 Ethel Proudlock murder in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which became a cause clbre 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. [show more]
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Apple Annie (May Robson) lives her life selling fruit on the New York sidewalk, but pretends to her daughter that she is mixing in aristocratic circles, writing letters to her on fancy headed-paper and making up stories about the well-to-do people she claims to know. When her daughter decides to visit Manhattan with her fiancé, a Spanish Count, Annie realise that she must keep up the pretence by posing as a high society lady and calls upon her friend Dave the Dude (Warren William) for help.
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