The Elephant Man
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
Found 10 results Back to Home
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
Based on Bernard Pomerance’s Tony Award-winning play. Plot TBA.
This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections about the role and the crazy makeup he worked in, are fascinating, as are t
A short directed by Ken Russell.
Sid hates his hands; he thinks they look like elephant feet; so he hides them from everyone including himself.
The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease
Short documentary on Joseph Merrick, on whose life David Lynch's film THE ELEPHANT MAN was based.
‘The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked’ sets out to investigate the clean-up of a line of dialogue, ‘I am not an animal, I am a human being, a man, a man’, in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), and explores the possibili