The Elephant Man is a perfect movie and, as John Hurt once said “If you’re not moved by the time The Elephant Man is over…then you’re not someone I want to know.”
The Elephant Man: Is David Lynch’s 1980 drama his greatest cinematic achievement?
That movie was 1980’s The Elephant Man, Lynch’s follow-up to his fearless, unclassifiable midnight sensation Eraserhead.
Still, what is Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) but a mutated version of Freddie Jones’ character in The Elephant Man?