Glen or Glenda
“I Changed My Sex!”
Premium Crap. CrapScore 71, rated by 1 admin.
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Ed Wood makes an earnest appeal for understanding through a film that keeps wandering away from its documentary frame. Stiff conversations, dreamlike interruptions and Bela Lugosi's cryptic presence make the form startlingly unstable. The camp comes from the filmmaking, not from the gender expression it tries to defend.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 7/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 5/10
- Dialogue
- 8/10
- Rewatchability
- 7/10
“A plea for acceptance transmitted through a very peculiar cinematic apparatus.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 71
Synopsis and movie facts
Glen doesn't dare tell his fiancée Barbara that he is a transvestite known as Glenda; in addition, Alan is undergoing medical treatment to become a woman named Anne; both stories are told by a psychiatrist.
- Released
- 1953
- Directed by
- Edward D. Wood Jr.
- Running time
- 71 min
Starring
- Timothy Farrell as Dr. Alton / Narrator
- Bela Lugosi as Scientist
- Edward D. Wood Jr. as Glen / Glenda (as Daniel Davis)
- Lyle Talbot as Inspector Warren
- Dolores Fuller as Barbara
- 'Tommy' Haynes as Alan / Anne
- Charlie Crafts as Johnny (as Charles Crafts)
- Conrad Brooks as Banker / Reporter / Pickup Artist / Bearded Drag (as Connie Brooks)
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 24018. Review uses a different release year; the catalogue follows the canonical TMDB release date.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review discusses awkward delivery and the shift from documentary pretence into direct audience appeals.
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