Review – Glen or Glenda?

Also known as “I Led 2 Lives,” this is crap cinema genius Ed Wood’s semi-autobiographical defense of transvestites. Wood uses the basic format of old exploitation “documentaries” of the 1930s. But his odd sense of ineptness gives his work an almost surreal feel. Buffaloes run across the screen as an aging, heroin-ravaged Bela Lugosi yells “pull the string!” apropos of nothing. Also included here are such bon mots of science as the theory that male pattern baldness is due to ill-fitting hats. You have to be in the mood for a so-bad-its-good movie before taking this one on, but if such a mood does happen to strike you this is one of the finest examples of the genre. Mildly amusing