John Merrick, 'The Elephant Man'
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The Elephant Man: Directed by David Lynch. With Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud. A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak.
Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called "The Elephant Man".
The Elephant Man: Directed by Jack Hofsiss. With Philip Anglim, Kevin Conway, Penny Fuller, Richard Clarke. A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasable weird, but thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult following and enabled Lynch to make his first mainstream film (in an unlikely alliance with Mel Brooks), though The Elephant Man (1980) was shot through with his unique sensibility.
When was The Elephant Man released? October 10, 1980. What is the IMDb rating of The Elephant Man? 8.2 out of 10. Who stars in The Elephant Man?
The Elephant Man: Directed by David Lynch. With Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud. A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak.
Español (España) Español (México) The Elephant Man (1980) PG | Biography, Drama.
John Merrick : My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Dr. Frederick Treves : Because of the extensive area covered by papillomatus growths, the patient has been called "The Elephant Man".
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