This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth."Jane demonstrates her knowledge about "why one never finds a dead elephant in the jungle." She describes the secret graveyard of the elephants: "...An elephant can always ell when death is coming for him.And when he hears the call, there""s a secret place to which he wanders.A place where he can lay his bones with his ancestors.A place of rest." As they prepare for the journey, Parker tells Jane and Holt that there is "enough ivory to supply the world.[The human-like portrait was actually a photograph of Gene Tierney taken by studio photographer Frank Polony - and touched-up with a few light brushings of paint.They narrowly escaped by following a tunnel, and then were aided by a Fox (voice of Rupert Everett) who told the wolves that they had fled north.