The Elephant Man (film) me hate acting." Because of the strain on the actor, he worked alternate days. Lynch originally wanted Jack Nance for the title character. "But it just wasn't in the cards," Lynch says; the role went to John Hurt after Brooks, Lynch and Sanger saw his performance in "The Naked Civil Servant" as Quentin Crisp. Lynch bookended the film with surrealist sequences centered around Merrick's mother and her death. Lynch used Samuel Barber’s "Adagio for Strings" to underline the end of the film and Merrick's own death. The film's composer, John Morris, argued against using the music, stating that "this piece
The Iron Man (1930 film) portrayed as the main character, he unexpectedly receives the iron man via post. Other characters in the film are a variety of species of animals, and the iron-man, who chases after all the characters at the end of the cartoon. The film gathered positive reviews from the film magazines at that time. The Motion Picture News said that the film has "nearly everything needed in a short of pen-and-ink variety", and also said the film's music created "many laughs when tied up to the antics to the cartoon characters". The magazine's closing comment is that "A good slapstick, or a