Elephant Man is a movie novelization written by Christine Sparks in 1980 and based on the movie The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch in 1980. The movie features Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, and others.
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Book by Frederick Treves
Book by Ashley Montagu
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Storyline
Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London Hospital, finds Joseph Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London’s East End, where he is kept by Mr. Bytes, a greedy, sadistic, psychopathic, despicable, violent and heartless ringmaster. Carr Gomm permits him to stay, and Merrick spends his time practising conversation with Treves and building a model of a cathedral he sees from his window.
Movie vs Book
Year
1980
Minutes
124
Movie Rate
8.10
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Movie
The Elephant Man
Director: David Lynch
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Length: 2h4m
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Year
1980
Pages
288
Book Rate
7.92
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Book
Elephant Man
Author: Christine Sparks
Country: UK
First published in: 1980
Length: 288 pages
Genre: Biography
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