Glen or Glenda
Glen or Glenda

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"Glen or Glenda" tells two stories. One is about Glen, who secretly dresses as a woman but is afraid to tell his fiancée Barbara. The other is about Alan, a pseudohermaphrodite who undergoes a painful operation to become a woman. Both stories are told by Dr. Alton, who also delivers an earnest lecture on tolerance and understanding. A second narrator, The Scientist, delivers commentary which contains more philosophical pronouncements than facts. The film also has flashbacks-... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Glen or Glenda:

Timothy Farrell
Bela Lugosi
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Lyle Talbot
Dolores Fuller
'Tommy' Haynes

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"Glen or Glenda" tells two stories. One is about Glen, who secretly dresses as a woman but is afraid to tell his fiancée Barbara. The other is about Alan, a pseudohermaphrodite who undergoes a painful operation to become a woman. Both stories are told by Dr. Alton, who also delivers an earnest lecture on tolerance and understanding. A second narrator, The Scientist, delivers commentary which contains more philosophical pronouncements than facts. The film also has flashbacks-within-flashbacks and a strange dream sequence; Inspector Warren's investigation of a transvestite's suicide leads him to learn more about men in women's clothes; Johnny's wife leaves him when she discovers what he wears while she's away; Barbara is oblivious to her fiancé Glen's desire to wear her angora sweater; Satan invades Glen's nightmare; and The Scientist only offers cryptic advice like "Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep.

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Old School Reviews - 9/10 by John A. Nesbitas insanely bad as this movie is, it retains perverse pleasures that serve it well as a cult icon
New York Times - 6/10 by Janet MaslinIt isn't quite a camp classic, although it's dreadful enough to have a certain comic appeal. ''Glen or Glenda'' is also a film of great conviction in its way, and that tends to interfere with the fun.
Time Out - 4/10 by Chris PetitThis well-meaning disaster, rescued from the obscurity it surely craves, is without doubt a candidate for one of the worst films ever made.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 3/10 by Ken HankeIt baffles science and logic and rudimentary narrative skills, but it's fascinating.
Variety - 0/10 by Variety StaffWhat distinguishes it from other low-budget efforts are the occasional mad flights of fancy.
User Review - 10/10 by Dillon HShameful trash at it's finest. Bela Lugosi ("...Pull the String...Pull the string...!"), irrelevant stock footage, and Edward D. Wood starring as a transvestite. Though, as poor a film it may be, it sure makes some brave and meaningful statements for the time (with stock footage of factories being displayed as they are spoken).
User Review - 10/10 by Kristian Shauska on!! paskat näyttelijät on jo niin paskoja että ei sitä voi tosissaan kattoo..Bela on ihan kunkku..varmaankin faktuaalinen omassa ajassaan luulisin..kai se transuilukin on samanlainen sairaus ku homous.. =;D
User Review - 10/10 by Tyler HEd Wood's films need a ratings scale all their own. It's probably been over a decade since I'd last seen this and I had forgotten how thoroughly...remarkable this film is. Whatever else you can say about it, you can't simply look at the nonexistent budget, bad directing, bad writing, worse acting, and just write it off as a bad movie or even one of the worst films ever made; the whole thing simply defies description. Overwrought dialogue, ham-handed if not flat-out fractured symbolism, a ridiculous overuse of stock footage, much of which is tangentially pertinent to the film at best, imagery that...well, I'm sure made sense to Wood -- all of these elements come together to create an unlikely thing of pure beauty that one really needs to experience for oneself. Even the brief recreations from Tim Burton's biopic don't come close to capturing everything this film has to offer. The epitome of unwitting genius.
User Review - 10/10 by Shane DWith Plan 9 Ed Wood gave us what may possibly be the best accidental comedy ever, but with Glen Or Glenda? he gave us something that I don't think has been repeated in film history, accidental surrealism. Seeing this film for the first time was one of the most bizarre movie expediences I've ever had. Between Lugosi's rambling and somewhat insane narration(?), random stock footage of buffaloes, some ludicrous acting by Wood himself, and what I can only imagine are supposed to be dream sequences, this movie seems like it was filmed inside the head of a mental patient. I don't think that anybody, other than the maestro of bad movies, could ever produce something like this without meaning for it to be weird. This movie may have been a classic if released as a surrealist film, but Wood probably didn't see anything out of the ordinary about it. In fact the entire movie probably made perfect sense to him. Just more evidence that he was either a mad genius or just plain ol' mad. Plan 9 may get all the attention, but if you ask me, this was Wood's masterpiece. A story so personal that nobody, other than its maker, knew what the hell it was trying to say.
User Review - 10/10 by Mark LWeird is an understatement when it comes to this film. Strange partly because they didn't know any better, but either way, its just weird! The sweeping assumptions are one thing, the dialogue is another. The strange nightmare scene is another bizarre scene that doesn't even belong in something this weird! But the best part? "PULL THE STRING!!!" One of the best lines ever!

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