Year: 1980
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Directors: David Lynch
Writers: Christopher De Vore (screenplay), Eric Bergren (screenplay), David Lynch (screenplay), Frederick Treves (book), Ashley Montagu (in part on the book “The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity”)
Plot: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

The director for this movie passed away the other day. She will be missed, she was one of the first female directors, blazing the trail for all the female directors of today.