Title: Elephant Man

Date: 1980
Type: Drama / Biopic
Rating: 4/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: David Lynch
Producer:

Comment
At the end of the 19 century John Hurt plays the physically deformed John Merrick who is rescued from a freak show, taken to live in a London hospital by Anthony Hopkins and becomes part of society. This is a moving film, not least due to the sympathetic performance by John Hurt and the atmospheric filming from David Lynch, which he shot in black and white in a 1940s style. This is an adaptation real life events in Victorian England.
Actors
Anthony Hopkins
John Hurt
John Geilgud
Anne Bancroft
Michael Elphick
Hannah Gordon
Wendy Hiller
Oscars
Nomination Best Actor - John Hurt
Nomination Best Film
Quote
I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!