Rotten
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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Glen or Glenda
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Edward D. Wood Jr. Director
- Timothy Farrell as Dr. Alton / Narrator
- Bela Lugosi as Scientist
- Edward D. Wood Jr. as Glen / Glenda
- Lyle Talbot as Inspector Warren
- Dolores Fuller as Barbara
- Conrad Brooks as Banker / Reporter / Pickup Artist
- 'Tommy' Haynes as Alan / Anne
- Charlie Crafts as Johnny (as Charles Crafts)
- Henry Bederski Cast
- Carol Daugherty Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
36%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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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