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Glen or Glenda? (1953)

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Reviews Counted:22

Fresh:7

Rotten:15

Average Rating:3.6/10

Runtime: 79 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A police inspector is puzzled by the suicide of a transvestite, and goes to a psychiatrist to find out about the kind of man who prefers to dress in woman's clothing. The psychiatrist tells him... A police inspector is puzzled by the suicide of a transvestite, and goes to a psychiatrist to find out about the kind of man who prefers to dress in woman's clothing. The psychiatrist tells him about two of his patients, in particular Glen, a man who was engaged to be married but who couldn't bear to tell his fiancee of his unusual desires. [More]

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Daniel Davis, Dolores Fuller

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Daniel Davis, Dolores Fuller, Timothy Farrell, Tommy Haynes, Conrad Brooks

Director: Edward D. Wood

Director: Edward D. Wood
Screenwriter: Edward D. Wood
Producer: George David Weiss

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Feb 15, 2000

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  • He loved women so much, he dared to dress like one! Ed Wood strikes again. The true story of a man whose lust for women drove him to be as close to a woman as he could by trying to become one. The first film based on the strange tastes of legendary filmmaker Ed Wood, Jr., and a sordid plea for acceptance in the world of bondage and the sexually confused, decades before "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and TV's "Ellen." "Glen or Glenda?" stars famous horror icon Bela Lugosi as the "puppet master" and Ed himself in the role of Glen/Glenda. It also marks the screen debut of Wood's main squeeze at the time, Dolores Fuller, who went on to become one of Elvis's star songwriters. An important film document about the early career of a man years ahead of his time. Wildly entertaining!
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    03/26/09
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    not really a real movie

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    04/24/08
    Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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    No review available.

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    02/18/08
    Cole Smithey
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    as insanely bad as this movie is, it retains perverse pleasures that serve it well as a cult icon

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    03/09/07
    John A. Nesbit
    John A. Nesbit
    Old School Reviews

    The passage of time has not transformed Glen or Glenda? into a good movie; it has, however, revealed it to be a braver film than anyone had ever imagined.

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    08/29/06
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    This well-meaning disaster, rescued from the obscurity it surely craves, is without doubt a candidate for one of the worst films ever made.

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    07/08/05
    Philip Martin
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Even in the camp cult genres this is still dreadful.

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    12/28/04
    Michael Dequina
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    TheMovieReport.com

    Funny to watch, but not as funny as you might remember.

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    12/11/04
    Kevin Carr
    Kevin Carr
    7M Pictures

    It 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.

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    12/06/04
    Janet Maslin
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    04/26/04
    Mark Palermo
    Mark Palermo
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    Excellent movie to laugh at. Rent it and have a ball!

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    08/12/03
    Alex Sandell
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    08/02/03
    John Esther
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    Pasadena Weekly

    It baffles science and logic and rudimentary narrative skills, but it's fascinating.

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    03/19/03
    Ken Hanke
    Ken Hanke
    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    An Ed Wood classic! Pull the string!

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    09/09/02
    Mike McGranaghan
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    Aisle Seat

    Terrible and inept, but, oh God, is it funny!

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    08/22/02
    Jeffrey Westhoff
    Jeffrey Westhoff
    Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

    Just because Ed Wood's become a cultural icon, that doesn't make this movie any less hilariously inept.

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    07/25/02
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