[richm]

Short scene where a man is executed by an elephant crushing his head with it's foot.

[Quinn F]

This? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlswWbQcvUk? Not sure what movie it's from though.

[aliseaodo]

I think it may be from the movie The Sign of the Cross by Cecil De Mille... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...2F%3B320%3B240

[MystMoonstruck]

I think it may be from the movie The Sign of the Cross by Cecil De Mille... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...2F%3B320%3B240

That movie is in b&w and has no such scene in it. There are two versions: the original and the re-release featuring a World War II framework.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYjgKjZ39g

[aliseaodo]

Hi Moonstruck - this is the article where I got the info that led me to the image...
.. ....The original, unedited version survived only as single print in his personal vault until its recent restoration. What it revealed is a film like little else prior to Pasolini's Salo in its combination of horror, degeneracy and an all-pervading sense of doom. There is a genuinely apocalyptic feel to the thing. A naked girl is tethered horizontally two feet from the ground as hungry crocodiles scuttle towards her, another is tied to a pole as a gorilla advances, her fate presumably an altogether different one, a battle is staged between gladiators and dwarves, an elephant crushes a man's head beneath its foot, and through it all De Mille cuts to Laughton and the other spectators salivating and laying wagers on the outcome.....
Movietone News: Charles Laughton in Hollywood: Different from all the world

I know the op mentioned it was in color, but memories can be a tricky thing, if its not the film the op is looking for we can cross it off the list and continue on the search! Times like this when it would be so nice for the op to come back with a yay or nay...

[MystMoonstruck]

Hi Moonstruck - this is the article where I got the info that led me to the image...
.. ....The original, unedited version survived only as single print in his personal vault until its recent restoration. What it revealed is a film like little else prior to Pasolini's Salo in its combination of horror, degeneracy and an all-pervading sense of doom. There is a genuinely apocalyptic feel to the thing. A naked girl is tethered horizontally two feet from the ground as hungry crocodiles scuttle towards her, another is tied to a pole as a gorilla advances, her fate presumably an altogether different one, a battle is staged between gladiators and dwarves, an elephant crushes a man's head beneath its foot, and through it all De Mille cuts to Laughton and the other spectators salivating and laying wagers on the outcome.....
Movietone News: Charles Laughton in Hollywood: Different from all the world

I know the op mentioned it was in color, but memories can be a tricky thing, if its not the film the op is looking for we can cross it off the list and continue on the search! Times like this when it would be so nice for the op to come back with a yay or nay...

It is conceivable that it's an excised scene from the original. I've seen both versions a number of times, and I definitely would have remembered such explicit scenes. I saw uncut versions, but there could have been editing somewhere. Pre-Code films often had surprisingly daring moments.

[jenniesmith019]

Cross by Cecil De Mille?