A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his montrous facade, there is revealed a peron of intelligence and senitivity.
John Merrick (whose real name was Joseph, as this is based on a true story) is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.

photographic art and make-up are also first class , the story of the development of smooth , performances and moving, and the membership of doctors and the behavior of the masses of the review of the human "moral " and "justice" standard . The film is based on real medical file , with particular emphasis on the reproducibility of the atmosphere . The Victorian era, a British doctor in the circus found a head deformities of the Elephant Man , suffered inhuman treatment , so its back to the hospital for research . Unexpectedly, the circus troupe with a turn Elephant Man snatched to the European tour around the exhibition , Credit goes to the other morbid person in the group secretly , he saved the English finally got him to experience the warmth of human . .