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The Elephant Man
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London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick, who is severely deformed, in a Victorian freak show in London's East End. Behind his looks, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost.
London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick, who is severely deformed, in a Victorian freak show in London's East End. Behind his looks, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost.
Actors:
Freddie Jones,
Kenny Baker,
Hugh Spight,
Michael Elphick,
Lydia Lisle,
Frederick Treves,
Patsy Smart
Freddie Jones
12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Kenny Baker
24 August 1934, Birmingham, England, UK
Hugh Spight
Michael Elphick
19 September 1946, Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
Lydia Lisle
Frederick Treves
29 March 1925, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent, England, UK
Patsy Smart
14 August 1918, Chingford, England, UK
Country:
United States, United Kingdom
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October 23, 2004
I kept asking myself what the film was really trying to say about the human condition as reflected by John Merrick, and I kept drawing blanks.
September 16, 2014
...at its best when the story and period trappings serve Lynch's vision, and vice versa.
February 21, 2014
Lynch shows a weakness in this film that isn't present in just about any of his others: Sentimentality.
April 22, 2014
This stylish, poignant drama is probably the closest director David Lynch has got to the mainstream outside of the disastrous Dune.
Tom Milne
January 26, 2006
A marvellous movie, shot in stunning black-and-white by Freddie Francis.
April 22, 2014
Lynch's powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness. That's the very movement of the story itself.
Scott G. Mignola
January 02, 2011
Heartbreaking drama isn't for sensitive viewers.
April 30, 2008
The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch's personal themes -- the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions -- and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie.
April 30, 2008
Director David Lynch has created an eerily compelling atmosphere in recounting a hideously deformed man's perilous life in Victorian England.
April 22, 2014
This is a tale of redemption and transcendence, of the hunchback of London Hospital, of the noble phantom who wanted to go to the opera, of Beauty and the Beast.
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