Ed Wood: Glen Or Glenda? (1953) Part 3 Of 7

Ed Wood's first "major" film. IT IS TERRIBLE it's one of those movies that are so bad that they are good. It has a bizarre story, bad acting, and strange dialogue. The movie does not have the same outrageousness such as Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) but still is hilarious. The first part of the film begins with a narrator named The Scientist (Bela Lugosi) making cryptic comments about humanity. The film proper opens with Inspector Warren finding the corpse of a male transvestite named Patrick/Patricia, who has committed suicide. Wanting to know more about cross-dressing, Warren seeks out Dr. Alton, who narrates for him the story of Glen/Glenda. However, at several points Alton appears to address the viewer rather than Inspector Warren, and the unclear role of the Scientist as narrator makes things even more confusing. Glen is shown studying women's clothes in a shop window. Dr. Alton points out that men's clothes are dull and restrictive, whereas women can adorn themselves with attractive clothing. He also makes some more bizarre statements, such as that baldness is caused by hats. Glen reads about sex change operations in a newspaper, then meets with Barbara, his girlfriend, who asks if Glen's secret problem is another women. The film then cuts to the (in)famous shot of the Scientist shouting "Pull the string!" as bison stampede onscreen. It is not clear what this is meant to mean; perhaps that Glen should act as puppeteer, controlling his own life instead of letting others dictate it. Another transvestite friend of his, John, tells Glen how cross-dressing ended his marriage. A bizarre dream sequence, containing some BDSM pornography, follows. Glen then decides to tell Barbara the truth. She proffers her angora sweater as a sign of acceptance. The second part is much shorter, and was made to meet the distributor's demand for a sex change film. Alan is a pseudohermaphrodite who fights in the Second World War, wearing women's underwear. After his return, the Scientist (the only character to appear in both parts), turns Alan into "Anne", a woman, apparently through magical means.

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[anomuious96789]

"Glen, is it another woman?"

Buffalo's Runs Out

"PULL THE STRING! PULL THE STRING! A mistake is made, a story must be told!"

I think Lugosi was talking about the buffalo's. He's like fuck glen/glenda, how those buffalo's get there?

[lllexoduslll]

Pull da strink! Pull da strink!!

[mhermit]

-"I wanna get married."

-"You HAVE a problem."

[mhermit]

I met Delores Fuller at a convention in Baltimore about 15 years ago. She was just beautiful & as sweet as could be.

[shawnfella]

At 7:38 a guy goes through a door. He moves to close the door behind him but it doesn`t latch. The picture on the wall is crooked. The actor moves away from the door and out of the shot. Ed keeps the camera on the door for several lines of dialogue. Not on the actors, on the door. Incredibly, he cuts the shot on the door and splices it together with the same shot only the door has been adjusted and the crooked picture on the wall has been straightened.

Classic Ed Wood.

[shawnfella]

I think Ed needs to come to the realization that you can be BOTH a transvestite AND bat shit crazy.

[Filipjphry]

Are the steelwork machines talking to each other?

[MademoiselleZombi]

This movie is so ridiculously progressive. And terrible. I think I love it.

[ralfodrum]

@MichaelLeroi She actually became a successful songwriter.Funny

[SuperAfda]

The bison were film footage that Ed Wood got for free. It just adds to the bizarreness of trying to work in Bella Lagose-who was a friend of Wood and in desperate need of work.

[Thresch]

Oh god the bisons :DDD

[LLydarth]

Transvestism is weird. Only a handful of weirdos do such things.

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