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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 Warrens investigation of a transvestites suicide leads him to learn more about men in womens clothes; Johnnys wife leaves him when she discovers what he wears while shes away; Barbara is oblivious to her fiancé Glens desire to wear her angora sweater; Satan invades Glens nightmare; and The Scientist only offers cryptic advice like "Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep."
When a police inspector discovers a known transvestites suicide, he seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist familiar with the phenomenon. The psychiatrist tells him the story of Glen, who must try to find a way to tell his fiancée Barbara of his desire to wear her angora sweater; and the story of Alan, who decides to physically become a female via surgery (based on the contemporary story of Christine Jorgensen). Throughout the film a scientist inanely babbles about life and death in order to somehow elucidate the story.
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Glen
Bela Lugosi
Scientist
Lyle Talbot
Inspector
Timothy Farrell
Psychiatrist
Dolores Fuller
Barbara
'Tommy' Haynes
Alan
Charlie Crafts
Johnny
Conrad Brooks
Banker
Henry Bederski
Man with Hat and Receding Hairline
Carol Daugherty
Woman in Nightmare
Captain DeZita
The Devil
Helen Miles
Miss Stevens
Shirley Speril
Minor Role
Amzie Strickland
Man in Nightmare
Harry Thomas
Judge
William C. Thompson
Patrick
Mr. Walter
Man at Transvestite's Suicide
George Weiss
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