The Curse of the Elephant Man (2003)

9.0/10 50 min Documentary

Overview

The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?

Cast

Joseph Merrick

Peter Hayden

Dr. Frederick Treves

Erika Hagelberg

Prof. Evolutionary Biology

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