tt0080678 The Elephant Man (1980)Director : David Lynch

Release Date : 10 October 1980 (USA)

Genre : Biography, Drama, History

Cast : : , Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves , John Hurt as John Merrick , Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Kendal , John Gielgud as Carr Gomm , Wendy Hiller as Mothershead , Freddie Jones as Bytes , Michael Elphick as Night Porter , Hannah Gordon as Mrs. Treves , Helen Ryan as Princess Alex , John Standing as Fox , Dexter Fletcher as Bytes' Boy , Lesley Dunlop as Nora , Phoebe Nicholls as Merrick's Mother , Pat Gorman as Fairground Bobby , Claire Davenport as Fat Lady

Plot : A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured lady who is mistreated bit shedding a alive because a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is bared someone of cranium along with sensitivity.

Run Time : 124 min

Country : USA

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Language : English

Filming Locations : Broadgate, London, England, UK

Company : Brooksfilms

Trivia : When the nominees as the 53rd Annual Academy Awards were announced inside February 1981, variant inside the industry were disgusted that this film was not reaching to troth valued as its make-up effects. At the duration there was not ordinary classification plus winners as make-up were honoured as well as a really extraordinary award. Feeling that the make-up technicians deserved to troth confered an award on as the film, a letter of object was sent to the Academy’s Board of Governors to see one another to correct their minds plus disintegrate the movie a really extraordinary award. The Academy refused, nevertheless inside retort to the outcry, they resolve a once a year afterward to profit make-up artists as well as their own annual category, plus so the paramount make-up souvenir was born.

Goofs : Continuity: In virtually every scene, John Hurt’s make-up assist inside many way.

Tag Lines : I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!

Plot Summary : Based on the specific account of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman bothered in addition to a disfiguring congenital disease. With the be of facility to of softly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick struggles to make a come back the eminence he wasted behind life worn-out since a side-show freak.

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