- Status: Completed
- Score: 8.1/10
- Director: David Lynch
- Country: EnglishFrench
- Year: 1980
- Duration: 124 min
- Genres: Biography,Drama,
- Production:
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.
Joseph “John” Merrick is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.
Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Helen Ryan, Dexter Fletcher, Phoebe Nicholls, Claire Davenport, John Hurt, John Gielgud, Freddie Jones, Hannah Gordon, John Standing, Lesley Dunlop, Pat Gorman,
