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ABOUT THE ELEPHANT MAN JOHN MERRICK MOVIE
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The Elephant Man plot from IMDb: "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."
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Directed by David Lynch
Produced by Jonathan Sanger
Screenplay by Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
Based on The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Frederick Treves, The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu
Music by John Morris
Cinematography: Freddie Francis
Edited by Anne V. Coates
Production company: Brooksfilms
Distributed by Columbia–EMI–Warner (UK), Paramount Pictures (US)
Release date: October 3, 1980 (New York City), October 10, 1980 (US)
Running time: 124 minutes
Budget: $5 million
Box office: $26 million (North America)
Cast and Characters:
Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves, a doctor who takes John from the freakshow to work in the hospital
John Hurt as John Merrick, an intelligent, friendly and kind-hearted man who is feared by most people in his society because of his severe deformity
Hannah Gordon as Ann Treves
Anne Bancroft as Madge Kendal
John Gielgud as Francis Carr Gomm
Wendy Hiller as Mrs Mothershead
Freddie Jones as Mr Bytes, the evil ringmaster (based on Tom Norman)
Michael Elphick as Jim, the dishonest night porter
Dexter Fletcher as Bytes' boy
Helen Ryan as Alexandra, Princess of Wales
John Standing as Fox
Lesley Dunlop as Nora, Merrick's nurse
Phoebe Nicholls (picture)/Lydia Lisle (footage) as Mary Jane Merrick
Morgan Sheppard as man in pub
Kenny Baker as plumed dwarf
Pat Gorman as Fairground Bobby
Nula Conwell as Nurse Kathleen, one of Merrick's nurses